The year is 1987 and the ancient Greek philosopher Heraclitus is living with his mother in a small house in Sacramento when suddenly there is a knock on the door..
How far does reading go? At what point does the act of reading catapult the reader into the seemingly inevitable desire that leads to writing? What is the line that divides reading from writing, and what happens in the process of trying to import the perspective one enjoys on one side of that line onto the other side? The four pieces collected here are meditations on possible approaches to these and other questions related to...
The year is 1987 and the ancient Greek philosopher Heraclitus is living with his mother in a small house in Sacramento when suddenly there is a knock ...
What if you had to choose between writing a book about Herman Melville and ending the world? How would you decide whether or not to initiate the Apocalypse? To what extent can the books we read help us to live our lives? Can they help us answer the most important question of all: whether or not to end the world?
What if you had to choose between writing a book about Herman Melville and ending the world? How would you decide whether or not to initiate the Apoca...
