The Boston Globe, April 11th, 1999
In his 35th novel, Be Cool, Elmore Leonard brings back Chili Palmer, the shady hero of Get Shorty. Writing is hard, says the soft-spoken author, 73, but it's still more fun than work. You've said that when you were writing ad copy for Chevrolet, you could do trucks but not convertibles. Not passenger cars. I did them, except you had to be kind of cute with the language. With station wagons, you had to refer to the kids as young 'uns. Until '55, you had to spell out Chevrolet; then a memo came around -- you could say Chevy. Were any of the disciplines of copywriting useful? No. I was already wr...
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