Stop by the very cool literary zine Metazen and give my story Oliver Pratt a read.
The Sense of an Ending
After just winning the Booker Prize, I had push a few other reads aside (Sorry Hermann Hesse and Philip K. Dick but you guys are up next. Promise.) and jump this one to the front of the literature que. More on this book after the brief, but expectedly dazzling read.
It’s to fiction that we regularly and gratefully turn for the truest picture of life.
– Julian Barnes, from The Art of Fiction #165, an interview in the Paris Review.
Way to go Julian Barnes. I just ordered your Booker Prize winning book, The Sense of An Ending. Can’t wait to read it.
Going inside the mind of Philip K. Dick
The long awaited, oft written about and frequently speculated on Exegesis of Philip K. Dick is set for release November 7th.
His fiction is famous, but his philosophy has been somewhat controversial as he has been called a visionary, a prophet, a latter-day Gnostic Saint and a madman.
I’ve read bits of the Exegesis at the end of VALIS and it was fascinating. I’m sure the full volume will be mind-bending, dark and illuminating.
I can’t wait to read it.
I realize today that nothing in the world is more distasteful to a man than to take the path that leads to himself.
- Hermann Hesse, from Demian
If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear as it is - infinite.
- William Blake, from The Marriage of Heaven and Hell.
Another thing I need to do, when I’m near the end of a book, is sleep in the same room with it. Somehow the book doesn’t leave you when you’re asleep right next to it.
Joan Didion said this and I adore it. Besides, books are sexy.
I can't stand a sentence until it sounds right.
The Book Cover Archive
A site about book covers and the people who design them. How nice.