Duke Haney
Born and raised in Virginia, Duke Haney, aka Daryl Haney, has spent most of his adult life working in the movie business as an actor and screenwriter, with twenty feature-film credits as the former and twenty-two as the latter. He used pseudonyms for some of the screenplays and went by “D. R. Haney” as the author of Banned for Life, a novel, and Subversia, an essay collection. After he was struck by a car in a crosswalk on in Hollywood, a friend claimed he walked like John “Duke” Wayne and gave him the nickname by which most people know him and he has adopted belatedly as his pen name. He plans to follow his latest essay collection, Death Valley Superstars, with a novel tentatively titled XXX.
A few links:
Book trailer for Death Valley Superstars
Other People with Brad Listi podcast interview for Death Valley Superstars
Interview about Death Valley Superstars at Cease, Cows
Death Valley Superstars Book Notes/playlist at Largehearted Boy
Banned for Life Book Notes/playlist at Largehearted Boy
If My Book contribution to Monkeybicycle
Review of Banned for Life at The Next Best Book Blog
Interview at The Next Best Book Blog 4/10
Interview about Banned at The Nervous Breakdown 7/09
Piece in Tank magazine (UK) 1/2009
Reflections on William Faulkner at Three Guys One Book
Self-interview about rock & roll, movies, fame, and the writing process, among other matters
“[...] nothing comes from comfort but the fear of losing it, and that's exactly where my generation made its big mistake. Yet discomfort's no good either. There's just no winning, is there? Do it one way and lose your soul; do it the other way and lose your livelihood. You guys who run the world, you've got all the bases covered.”
“It all began with a fuck. What doesn't? I fucked the wrong person; I fucked up the right one; somebody played me a song. It changed my whole life, that song. That's why I later went to so much trouble to find the guy who wrote and sang it.”
“I read so much, in fact, that one of my exes used to complain that I spent all my money on booze and books, which inconveniently couldn't be bought at the same locations.”