
Writer, attorney, author of Someday Everything Will All Make Sense, The Vixen Amber Halloway, Miracle Grow of the Mind, repped by @victresslit
New York, NY
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Thrilled for the upcoming pub of my new novel—now on preorder from the publisher
"Carol LaHines has invented here a compulsively readable and craftily constructed tale of murder and mayhem. Her wonderfully original unreliable narrator tells a story that will make you laugh and cry and perhaps remember Humbert Humbert in Lolita" regal-house-publishing.mybig…
Please joing me and @sheilakohler at the Corner Bookstore on the UES next Tuesday, October 13, from 6 to 7:30, as we discuss my latest novel! @RegalHouse1
cornerbookstorenyc.com/event…
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Nous sommes en train de perdre l’une des fonctions essentielles de la #littérature. Celle qui nous permet de faire l’expérience de pensées avec lesquelles nous sommes profondément en désaccord.
Plusieurs livres parmi les plus importants du XXᵉ siècle ne trouveraient pas aujourd’hui d’éditeurs de peur de heurter les sensibilités contemporaines ; comme « Lolita » de #VladimirNabokov qui nous enferme dans la conscience d’un pédophile et nous y retient par son style ; « Les Versets sataniques » de #SalmanRushdie qui accorde à l’écrivain le droit de mettre en doute ce que des milliards d’individus considèrent comme une vérité sacrée ; ou encore « Tropique du Cancer » de #HenryMiller, qui expose crûment la sexualité, la vulgarité, l’égoïsme et la misogynie de son narrateur ; enfin « Le Festin nu » de #WilliamBurroughs dont l’univers nous plonge dans la drogue, la sexualité, la violence et la dégradation sans nous offrir le confort d’un jugement moral extérieur.
Ces #livres ont choqué. Certains ont fait scandale. Ils sont pourtant devenus des œuvres majeures parce que la littérature n’a jamais eu pour fonction de ne représenter que ce qui est moralement acceptable. Elle peut nous faire entrer dans la conscience d’un salaud sans nous demander d’en devenir un. Elle peut nous faire éprouver la séduction d’une idée sans nous demander d’y adhérer.
La littérature n’a jamais été un lieu de refuge. Elle nous place devant ce que nous préférerions éviter. Une société qui refuse les livres qui dérangent finit par ne plus supporter les idées qui libèrent.
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“Existence is thus an eternal transformation of the future into the past—an essentially phantom process—a mere reflection of the material metamorphoses taking place within us.”
— Nabokov, The Gift
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Herman Melville’s desk, where he wrote Moby Dick & ceaseless letters to Nathaniel Hawthorne begging him to come visit so they could smoke, drink brandy, and discuss metaphysics.
NYC friends! I’m launching my new novel Oct 13 at The Corner Bookstore in conversation with Sheila Kohler. Save the date! cornerbookstorenyc.com/event…
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Most contemporary novels read like screenplays translated into prose.
The style prioritizes functionality and transparency over stylistic texture, and the emphasis is repeatedly on reporting events and emotions rather than using language to create beauty and depth.
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Here's my review of Carol LaHines' new novel "Miracle Grow of the Mind." facebook.com/photo/?fbid=190…
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Proust, once again:
“Beautiful books are written in a sort of foreign language. Beneath each word each one of us puts his own meaning or at least his own image, which is often a misinterpretation. But in beautiful books all our misinterpretations are beautiful.”
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“We have to rediscover, to reapprehend, to make ourselves fully aware of that reality… which is, quite simply, our life. Real life, life at last laid bare and illuminated—the only life in consequence which can be said to be really lived—is literature.”
— Proust, Time Regained
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Just delighted to showcase the incredible Chicago weekend for #regalretreat26 in this week's edition of @PublishersWkly ...we so appreciate all the Regal House authors who made the trip! #CommunityJoy #teamregalhouse
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Sebald on Nabokov:
“One of Nabokov’s main narrative techniques is to introduce, through barely perceptible nuances and shifts of perspective, an invisible observer—an observer who seems to have a better view not only than the characters in the narrative (1/3)
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The longer I live, the more I become convinced that the only thing that matters in literature is the (more or less less irrational) shamanism of a book, i.e. that the writer is first of all an enchanter.
- Nabokov to Edmund Wilson, 27 Nov. 1946
“And perhaps the resurrection of the soul after death is to be conceived as a phenomenon of memory.”
--Proust, The Guermantes Way
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“What the really great artists do is they're entirely themselves. They're entirely themselves, they've got their own vision, they have their own way of fracturing reality, and if it's authentic and true, you will feel it in your nerve endings.”
—David Foster Wallace
My latest novel, Miracle Grow of the Mind, is now available for preorder, regal-house-publishing.mybig…
A parenting saga, a satire about medical bureaucracy, —above all, a moving portrait about parents who are trying to help their developmentally disabled son.
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“Infinite Jest” is a masterpiece and a pleasure to read, Hermione Hoby writes. “Perhaps the greatest disjunction between the book’s reputation and its contents lies in the notion that it’s a pretentious slog no one could honestly enjoy.” newyorkermag.visitlink.me/xQ…
An essay I authored for @Severancemag on the lifelong effects and ontological bewilderment occasioned by plenary adoption. #adoptee























