As usual, Wambaugh's dialogue crackles with wit, and his plotting keeps the pages turning briskly. But ultimately, it's the characters he draws, and Wambaugh's navigations into the best and worst of human nature, that make Floaters sail. In the spirit of his new novel, Joseph Wambaugh issued forth with the following sublimely silly answers to what San Diego Magazine regarded as seven supremely serious questions. That's why it's full of masseuses and murder. Nobody likes me to begin with.
Floaters is full of laughs.
You seem to have had fun writing it. Writing is about as much fun as a hemorrhoidectomy. The reading habits of Americans have changed since you first began writing. Which is to say we read fewer books. The first thing I would do today is to get a contract from Books on Tape.