Dick Dart emerged from the ether during a flight from New York with my wife and children to Puerto Rico.
From Peter Straub
I had a connoisseur's... appreciation of fear.
I write longer sentences than most of the others, maybe because I probably like Henry James more than they do.
My first real breakthrough collided with the last months of Callaghan's Labour government, which had every intention of enjoying my success as much as I did.
There have been times when I reread - or at least leafed through - something because I'd sent a copy to a friend, and what usually happened was that I noticed dozens and dozens of clumsy phrases I wished I could rewrite.
However, I think I managed to reach a new level with Koko, and I will always be grateful for the experience.
Many fiction writers eventually want to feel that their work forms a single, unified entity.
Instead, I was interested in what I guess I could call narrative indeterminacy, in questioning the apparent, taken-for-granted authority of any particular representation of the events in question.
The actual Blue Rose murders, which lie at the core of the three novels, yield various incorrect solutions which assume the status of truth.
When, in the third book, we do learn the identity of the Blue Rose murderer, the information comes in a muted, nearly off-hand manner, and the man has died long before.
3 perspectives
2 perspectives
1 perspectives