Tasha, this is an excellent interview, but . . .
. . . I'd hoped that you try to get Harlan to talk about just how difficult the process of writing apparently is for him, and you never really touched on that. Of course, if the movie doesn't, either, I can see why it didn't come up.

You misunderstand me, or more likely, I was unclear. For most of these things, I was just one of many bystanders. My "problem" with the Greg Feeley incident wasn't that Harlan avoided Feeley (whom I don't like much, either), but that he made such a public show, in front of fans and camera crew, of announcing that he…

My mixed feelings about Harlan
When I was in my teens and twenties and early thirties, I adored him. I was a bigger Harlan fanboy than Peter David or Adam Troy-Castro (well, okay, not physically). He was not only the greatest living writer, but a fearless, two-fisted hero, and everything I wanted to be as a man.