Joe R. Lansdale’s enthralling OF MICE AND MINESTRONE engages readers with dashes of simple wisdom and hard truth
For FORT WORTH WEEKLY, E. R. Bills praises Joe R. Lansdale’s OF MICE AND MINESTRONE.
OF MICE AND MINESTRONE is enthralling storytelling that engages readers with dashes of simple wisdom and hard truth. And this particular volume includes a quirky, culinary epilogue from Joe’s daughter Kasey.
Violence aside, Hap and Leonard keep trucking on the correct side of history and humanity, and Lansdale’s storytelling is thrilling as always
Kenny Herzog at ENTREPRENEUR recommends Hap and Leonard in Shows to Binge During the Pandemic That Aren’t ‘Breaking Bad’ or ‘Fleabag’.
Nothing can prepare you for how weird this comedy/drama/mystery-thriller buddy series gets in a hurry. The broad strokes of Hap and Leonard are that it’s based on a series of novels by Joe R. Lansdale, set in the 1980s, features first-flight actors including Michael Kenneth Williams (speaking of The Wire), James Purefoy and Mad Men‘s Christina Hendricks. Purefoy is Hap, a conscientious Vietnam objector and smart aleck who literally pulls no punches. Leonard is his best friend, still scarred from having fought in the war and dealing with day-to-day life as an openly gay black man in East Texas. Over the course of three seasons, they find themselves in the crosshairs of lovestruck sadists, child killers and politically embedded Klansmen. They’re kind of like the Dukes of Hazzard, just far more tender with one another and up against much graver life-or-death odds. It’s not hard to see how this one was a hard sell, but trust us that it’s worth buying in.
