Christopher O'Riley just finished reading the second slim volume of the published work of writer and artist, Bruno Schulz, Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass, a collection traversing the life of a family from infancy to infantile dotage, evanescing surreal in a language of lapidary minutiae. just what i love. no wonder another favorite of mine, …
just finished reading, in my Philip K. Dick binge incted by the new Library of America boxed set of the major arcana of PKD’s novels, Now Wait For Last Year, which takes place during an inter-system war one of whose weapons is a time-travel-enabling hallucinogenic with devastating addictive and debilitating effect, the importance of …
just finished reading Philip K. Dick’s Dr. Bloodmoney. a post-apocalyptic pastoral that could easily play on-stage, or as a chamber opera, or a radio play, so intrinsic is the human voice to the narrative, psychology and dramatic thrust. but you’d have to work in voices and spirits that live inside or can influence malefically at …
just finished reading Pete Dexter’s Paper Trails, subtitled: True Stories of Confusion, Mindless Violence, and Forbidden Desires, a Surprising Number of Which Are Not About Marriage i’ve read all his novels memorable among them Train, Paris Trout and Deadwood (yup, the basis for the HBO series for which they conveniently forgot his masterful source novel; …
just finished reading Philip K. Dick’s Martian Time-Slip, the first novel in the 2nd volume of the new Library of America PKD collection. this one masterfully posits a connection between dysfunctions like schizophrenia and autism and their inherent alienation from reality and further muses about how conception of time and space may be enhanced/sped-up in …
just finished reading one of Lawrence Block’s collections of vignettes starring his charming philatelist/hired assassin, Keller, Hit Parade. easy on the eyes, though i have a hard time placing him on the same level as a similarly pseudonymic but eminently superior crime writer, Donald E Westlake. i’m spoiled. just trying to be broad in my …