Joan Barfoot

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Backlisted · Gaining Ground by Joan Barfoot - Rerun · 3 Aug 2026 podcast

It was there.

But things like that or getting over Edgar, I used a scene from an early Fatal that I covered when I worked in Windsor and again was still very young.

And a guy was hit by a train and decapitated.

And so when we got to the scene, there are the little lumps of body up and down.

So I mean, that's not useful in day-to-day life, but it came into really excellent use.

In any case, all I mean is that I have been always attracted to extremes, not necessarily those physical extremes, but

emotional extremes as well.

I mean, I've killed people in several of my novels just out of basic pique.

I mean, it's not like it's war or there's no, you know, ideology behind it.

It's just a really bad day.

Sort of the culmination of a relatively unhappy life.

So I've stopped killing people, I think, but there's a litter of dead people for no cosmic reason.

In my late 20s, I went across the Sahara Desert.

I went to Morocco and Algeria.

This is something I would not, of course, do now because there I'd be, and no one would pay the ransom.

And into Mali and Niger, and that...

kind of reinforces that whatever else... There were little villages of starving people, because the Sahara was moving south, creeping into people's lives further and further.

There would be nothing in these places except Singer sewing machines, oddly enough.

Those Singer salesmen were really something.

But I remember driving out of a village with a little girl running behind our truck

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