I miss that neighborhood vibe, the East Coast feel. Before COVID, I was always coming back to Boston every summer. But what’s really strange is that because of COVID, I haven’t been home in four years. I thought I was going to be here for maybe a year. I didn’t think it was going to be permanent. We came out here to look into TV possibilities at the time, and it just sort of snowballed. That’s kind of hard to get out of your system. Teresa of Calcutta.ĭo you still consider yourself a Dot rat? With his latest novel, Small Mercies-his first book in six years, about racism and busing in 1970s Boston-coming out April 25, we caught up with Lehane to talk about the writing life, what it’s like to work with movie mega-stars, and what he misses most about his hometown. Since then, he’s forsaken his hometown for Los Angeles and found success writing for television, most notably on HBO’s The Wire. Author Dennis Lehane first came to our attention with his novels Gone, Baby, Gone and Mystic River, just two of his books that have been turned into movies. You can take the boy out of Dorchester, but you can’t take Dorchester out of the boy. “Because of COVID, I haven’t been home in four years,” says Lehane.
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