Kinky Friedman is currently about to star in a reality show concerning his real-life attempt to become Governor of Texas.
After a carreer as leader of a musical group, "Kinky and the Jewboys", Freidman wrote detective novels and articles for Texas Monthly.
He also served in the Peace Corps. There are a lot of really neat people living in America. Praise the Lord!
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"From the March 2005 Issue.../ Killing Me Softly
Why did I commit literary suicide in my seventeenth (and last) mystery novel? I had no choice; it was spiritual self-defense. / by Kinky Friedman
WHY WOULD THE AUTHOR of a successful series of mystery novels featuring himself as the central character want to commit literary suicide by killing off his hero? Is the author, who just happens to be named Kinky Friedman, subconsciously jealous of the fictional fame garnered around the world by the character, who also happens to be named Kinky Friedman? Have author and character melded into a psychotic, schizophrenic entity so clinically ill as to obscure the difference between important clues like cocaine and horseradish? Both of us are glad you asked.
The truth is, by the time you�ve written your seventeenth mystery novel, if you ain�t crazy, there�s something wrong with you. If you happen to be your own main character, it tends to be even worse. There are some things that the two of you may have in common, of course. You both may smoke Cuban cigars. You both may drink Jameson�s Irish Whiskey. But, after a time, the bad outweighs the good. It doesn�t take long to discover, for instance, that the real you and the fabricated you both seem to lust after the same kind of woman. Once a woman�s imagination has been captured by a fictional heartthrob, the flesh-and-blood version has a hard act to follow. This is probably one of the reasons a great mystery writer once said, �If you like the book, never meet the author.�
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