A collection of no-holds-barred interviews with 16 authors who have shaped and defined narrative fiction and songwriting, Rogue Males includes conversations with crime fiction legends Elmore Leonard and James Crumley (in one of his last interviews); premier stylists James Sallis and Daniel Woodrell; noir kingpins James Ellroy and Ken Bruen, and top thriller writers Lee Child and Randy Wayne White. Stephen J. Cannell and Max Allan Collins hold forth on the intersection of crime novels and the silver screen while Andrew Vachss, Pete Dexter, Craig Holden, Alistair MacLeod, Tom Russell and Kinky Friedman round-out this one-of-a kind collection on the craft of writing--an array of ''mavericks, trailblazers and the gadflies. Men of conscience, entrepreneurs and magnificent bastards,'' as McDonald puts it in his introduction.