Dear Ed McBain, I recently re-discovered your 87th Precinct novels. Man. Let me tell you. While you never really scaled the literary heights like, say, Pynchon, Wolfe, or Seuss, that was a solid series you had going on there. It was a sad day when you succumbed to laryngeal cancer. I didn’t know that until [...]

Dan Chaon is enjoying more success than ever with his new novel, “Await Your Reply” (see our coverage here), and we at Three Guys couldn’t be happier about it, because, well, the dude deserves it. Last week, JC and I threw some questions at Mr. Chaon, who was so gracious as to field them.