Download or read book Being Cool written by Charles J. Rzepka and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rzepka draws on more than twelve hours of personal interviews with Leonard and applies what he learned to his close analysis of the writer's long life and prodigious output: 45 published novels, 39 published and unpublished short stories, and numerous essays written over the course of six decades.--David Geherin, Eastern Michigan University "International Crime Fiction Association"