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He gave up writing following the death of a writing mentor and moved to Austin, Texas, where he worked as a bartender and technical writer for four years. [ 12 ] [ 4 ] He later enrolled in an MFA program in Creative Writing at the University of Arkansas , and received the Lily Peter Fellowship for poetry and Walton Fellowship in 2003.
[8] [9] The series' writer, Nic Pizzolatto, confirmed in The Wall Street Journal [10] [11] that Ligotti, along with several other writers and texts in the supernatural horror genre, had indeed influenced him. Pizzolatto said he found The Conspiracy Against the Human Race to be "incredibly powerful writing". [11]
In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, Nic Pizzolatto, creator and writer of True Detective, cites Thacker's In the Dust of This Planet as an influence on the TV series, particularly the worldview of lead character Rust Cohle, along with several other books: Ray Brassier's Nihil Unbound, Thomas Ligotti's The Conspiracy Against the Human ...
Pizzolatto was still an executive producer on the show, … ‘True Detective: Night Country’ Star Kali Reis Says It’s a ‘Damn Shame’ After Franchise Creator Nic Pizzolatto Reposted Fans ...
“True Detective: Night Country” is the first season of the HBO anthology series not created by Nic Pizzolatto, who up until now had a writing credit on every episode across the show’s first ...
Notably, Night Country is the first season of True Detective without Pizzolatto's involvement. Though he retains an executive-producer credit, writer and director Issa López is season 4's showrunner.
Pizzolatto did not hire a writing staff because he believed a collaborative approach would not work with his isolated, novelistic process, and that a group would not achieve his desired result. [14] After working alone for about three months, the final copy of the project script was 500 pages long. [14] [15]
Nic Pizzolatto, the original creator of HBO’s “True Detective” franchise, published a bizarre Instagram post amid controversy generated in the aftermath of the show’s fourth season finale.