10 Questions for Elmore Leonard
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What's the best book you've read in the past year?
Joe Hoyle
MIDLOTHIAN, VA.
I haven't read a book in a year. I don't read fiction when I'm writing, and it took me a year to write [my new book] Djibouti. I don't like to be reading a book with a certain style while I'm writing one, because I can be influenced by that.
What's your next book about?
Robb Paulak
PASADENA, CALIF.
Djibouti takes place in East Africa, for the most part, and has an array of characters. There's a guy who's a billionaire, and he's giving this girl he likes--she's a runway model--a test. If she can go around the world with him on his yacht and not throw up or become bored, he may marry her. They're characters.
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