This would make students of Eugene Gendlin's A PROCESS MODEL very happy.

Great interview

I hear u. He might have meant that he was having to dip into his poetic sensibility per line more in Beheading. PALE FIRE forced him to write an amazing poem, but he was having to do so from such a meta-meta-meta place that he might not have felt as if it was is most poetic experience writing.

I think of The Easy Chain as his greatest masterpiece. But you can't go wrong in any Daranish directon.

Those last 30 pages or so of Permanent Earthquake are still messing me up 3 years later. Not sure how he pulled that off. Such a great novel.

In Stay More, Arkansas, a few of the folks in the hills are prophesying a very interesting 2025 for Daraians.

this book lives constantly in my ever transforming top handful of novels. it's too good to be true in other words.

A pure joy of a poem slash novel!

Yeah, great book! He considered this his most poetic novel.

Which title is the one on the left that the butterfly is touching?

I loved his book Skippy Dies. It was like an Infinite Jest for intelligent and weathered children. This new one keeps staring at me from bookshop windows.

It's a must if you're ever in the area.

Have you been to Magus Books in Seattle?

King of Comedy. Forgot all about that masterpiece.

I love that book!

Yes. I am still shocked to hear people call it that. A brutal and darkly hilarious book, as well as an unflinching look at our minimization of cruelty. And...yet...also a joyful celebration of artistic creation in the midst of it all.

I love that book.

I'm a big fan of yours. This was another fun and informing article. And I think there's a chance that really is Oxford!