THE NORTH RIDING PROJECT

There’s a scene in my next book in which a character who’s been traveling around with this girl leaves her in a motel room and goes out to see some buddies. The next morning, he comes back and he’s hungover. Terribly hungover. And he says, “I can’t believe what we did with those chickens last night.” And that’s all he says. She wonders what they were doing with those chickens – but it’s left to the imagination.

Elmore Leonard in Fussman/Esquire, 2014