dhalgren

https://hologramofthesenses.substack.com/p/escalator-over-the-hill

Met Chip over the weekend because we were booked to read together. Honor of my life, he tickled my shoulder and took lots of pictures of the audience's hands and postures? Then he read a damning review of 'Through the Valley of the Nest of Spiders,' then a chapter from that book. It was excellent.

Amazing!

Cool! I think ex-ILX0r Casuistry may have met him once as well, iirc.

Oh that's so nice! I've noticed he frequently describes his characters' hands so that one doesn't surprise me. I emailed with him about a blurb once when I worked in publishing but that was as close as I got

aww this is so wonderful

my old college lit professor is writing his biography and i couldn't be more thrilled :)

Very cool. I thought about ilxor love for him while we were sitting waiting for his Uber home. He lives only ten minutes away from me.

awww that rules

I will never not love this book. I read it for the first time in my early teens. That was probably a great time and an awful time to read it. It made a powerful impression on me, probably as much as any novel ever has, in terms of shaping my ideas of what fiction, and life itself, could be. Returning to it in my middle age was a revelation, an almost unique experience of telescoping time.

thinking about a reread.