{"id":4597,"date":"2019-09-25T13:37:14","date_gmt":"2019-09-25T17:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wfsu.org\/local-routes\/?post_type=wfsu-news&p=4597"},"modified":"2019-09-27T15:06:46","modified_gmt":"2019-09-27T19:06:46","slug":"longmire-creator-coming-to-tallahassee","status":"publish","type":"wfsu-news","link":"https:\/\/wfsu.org\/local-routes\/wfsu-news\/longmire-creator-coming-to-tallahassee\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Longmire’ Creator Coming To Tallahassee"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tales of the American West have been popular since at least the U-S Civil War. One of the most celebrated modern writers of Western fiction will be coming to Tallahassee October 2nd.<\/p>\n

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That writer is Craig Johnson. He has now penned a total of 15 books about one man whose name is Walt Longmire. Although Johnson insisted he never intended the character to be more than a one-off.<\/p>\n

\u201cI remember when I wrote the first book in the Walt Longmire series, it was \u2018The Cold Dish,\u2019 they set me down and said they\u2019d like to do this as a series. And I remember looking at them and thinking this wouldn\u2019t work. I had some other ideas to bounce off of them. And they told me to go back to my ranch in Wyoming and think about it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Johnson did think about it. And the more he thought, the more the character of Walt Longmire himself began to suggest new plotlines and adventures. Mainly, said Johnson, because Longmire is so relatable and authentic as a person.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s like us,\u201d Johnson chuckled. \u201cHe\u2019s overweight, overaged and overly depressed. But he still gets up in the morning and tries to do the job. That\u2019s one thing. And the other is a word you just don\u2019t hear too much these days and it\u2019s kind of gone out of fashion, but it says a lot: \u2018Decent.\u2019 He\u2019s just decent. He cares about the people in his county and cares about what\u2019s right. He\u2019s got a code that he lives by and he tries to do the right thing.\u201d<\/p>\n

It was all of these qualities, on top of the bestselling nature of the Longmire series and plenty of critical acclaim that eventually had TV producers knocking on Johnson\u2019s door to propose a Netflix series of shows.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhenever Warner Brothers came to me and said they were thinking about doing a television show, I went into it with my eyes open, knowing that they would do some things a little bit different from the way that I did the books. I remember having a conversation with the producers and one of the first things they said was they were thinking about making Walt and Henry (Standing Bear) about 10 years younger than they are in the books. And I had the immediate redneck cowboy response, \u2018Why are we doing that?!\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Johnson quickly learned that in TV, there\u2019s a reason for everything and that reason usually has to do with ratings and revenues.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd they said it was because they\u2019d like the show to run for about 10 years and they\u2019d rather not have Walt and Henry wind up on walkers by the time they got through with it (the series.) So I had to concede that point,\u201d he laughed.<\/p>\n

And now, Johnson\u2019s 15th book in the Longmire series is out.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe title itself \u2018The Land of Wolves\u2019 comes from a Basque proverb: \u2018The land of strangers is the land of wolves,\u2019 he explained. After Walt\u2019s experiences in \u2018Depth of Winter\u2019 in northern Mexico he comes back a changed and damaged man. There he is in his home county and state where he was born, grew up and lived the majority of his life, was married, had children and a career and he doesn\u2019t recognize any of it. It\u2019s a situation where he\u2019s not only a stranger in a strange land but a stranger to himself.\u201d<\/p>\n

Yet, somehow, that elemental decency that Johnson referenced earlier, once again emerges to pull Longmire through the crisis. The evening of October 2nd, Johnson will be visiting Tallahassee, courtesy of Midtown Reader. But because of the incredible popularity of both his books and the Netflix TV programs, his appearance will be at Holy Comforter School. Unlike so many authors, he promises not to simply read a few excerpts from his works and then hawk signed copies for the rest of the night.<\/p>\n

\u201cI enjoy sitting and telling stories about what\u2019s going on, whether it be stories about being out on the road or fishing in Alaska or talking about the TV show and the actors. We have \u2018Longmire Days\u2019 in Buffalo (Wyoming), so there\u2019s always stuff to tell people about. And one of my favorite aspects is always the Q&A. I love opening it up and letting people ask questions because there\u2019s an improvisational aspect to that. The other stuff you can prepare for, but when people are asking questions, you never know what direction that might go.\u201d<\/p>\n

And, like his signature character Walt Longmire, Craig Johnson is a real, honest-to-gosh creature of the American west. The stories should be hum-dingers.<\/p>\n

For more information and tickets: https:\/\/craigjohnsontallahassee.bpt.me\/ or call Midtown Reader: 850-425-2665 <\/p>\n

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