With his young son and ailing, drunken father in tow, he heads west, eventually landing in Los Angeles, where, as it turns out, a movie about the battle of Rhode Island is in production.ĭanny ends up falling for a tragic movie star, which doesn’t help his efforts to keep a low profile. “City of Dreams” follows the further adventures of Danny Ryan, a reluctant Irish gangster on the lam from the Italians and the feds after a series of disasters, including a massive heroin deal gone awry. If this truly is the end, Winslow, who divides his time between California and Rhode Island, is going out with a cross-country bang. There's just a lot going on right now that I think requires more immediate responses than a novel could offer.”

“I don't want to be publishing books just for the sake of publishing books. “I think I've told the stories I want to tell,” he says in a video interview from his home outside San Diego, floor-to-ceiling bookshelves in the background. And they helped convince Winslow that some things are more important to him than writing novels. With collaborators including Bruce Springsteen and Jeff Daniels, the videos drew millions of online views in the runup to the 2020 presidential election. At 69, he wants to turn his full attention to political activism, including more of the anti-Trump videos he has made with the filmmaker Shane Salerno (also Winslow’s literary agent).

But Winslow insists the upcoming third book in the trilogy, “City in Ruins” (already written, due out next year), will be his last act of fiction.

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