I wrote a Civil War novel, also. I do enough research to feel like I can wear the clothes and be there, but I don’t insist on knowing every single little thing–this is how they made butter, or whatever. I really wanted a sense of the people of the time, and sometimes that’s the bigger challenge. In fact, I was reading newspaper front pages from the 1930s, and I was taken aback. I’m not naive about American history, but I was a bit knocked off my feet by things that used to be on the front pages of newspapers. Bookish: What were some of the stories? DW: They would go into greater detail about love-nest murders and things like that, but they would also rather casually cover race crimes and stuff. I saw one the other day, and I told my wife, “This is 1935, and it says, ‘Black man allegedly slapped a white woman. Five men went over in broad daylight and killed him. No charges filed.'” BOOKISH: Dexter’s bookshelf: What a serial killer reads Bookish: How involved were you in the making of the movie Winter’s Bone? DW: Very little.
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