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GET LIT: Win a copy of Duane Swierczynski's Expiration Date

POSTED: Friday, April 2, 2010, 4:39 PM

Filed Under: Arts Books

Minotaur, 245 pp., $13.99, March 30

It's day two of Book Quarterly Trivia Week, and we're pleased to have the opportunity to give away a copy of former City Paper Editor in Chief Duane Swierczynski's new novel, Expiration Date. In this week's CP, Duane and fellow local crime writer Dennis Tafoya chatted about their latest books (Tafoya's The Wolves of Fairmount is due out this June), Philadelphia's cred as a hard-boiled city and the possibility of breaking out of their chosen genres. Here's an excerpt:

Dennis Tafoya: You've written nonfiction books, you write Cable and a bunch of other comic series for Marvel, and now Expiration Date looks to stretch out of the crime genre to science fiction — would you like to try other genres? Duane Swierczynski: Definitely. I think of my novels and comics as a big pot of soup. The main ingredient, for lack of a better term, is "thriller" — in other words, stories where bad stuff happens to interesting people. Sometimes I'll add heavy does of espionage, sometimes it's horror, often it's black comedy. In Expiration Date, it's a big shaker full of sci-fi. But I can't help coming back to Philly, even with the stranger stories.

To win a copy of Expiration Date, answer this trivia question:

Duane and his brother Gregg's parents were big fans of what '70s rock group?

E-mail your best guess to carolyn.huckabay@citypaper.net for a chance to win! RELATED >> Noir Town: Two Philadelphia Crime Novelists Shoot It Out [UPDATE, 1:40 p.m.]: Congratulations to CritMass reader Edward for correctly identifying the band that inspired the Swierczynski kids' names — The Allman Brothers.

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