Visual Narratives
What if ending war forever required starting the biggest one in history?
THE PASSED PAWN (95,000 words) is a completed novel, a suspense thriller, populated with indomitable, off-kilter female characters. Think Killing Eve with less love, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy with more punching. You can read the first chapter here.
There is a thing confusedly formed
Born before heaven and earth
Silent and void
It stands alone and does not change
Goes around and does not weary
Capable of giving birth to the world
—Lao-Tzu
The Missing Angel is a work in progress.
Separated by more than a century Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita (1955) and Matthew Lewis’s The Monk (1796) belong to very different literary traditions—modern prose versus Gothic sensationalism—yet both are about the human heart, albeit deviant and troubled hearts. According to Dante the opposite of moderation is …
Literature should be a transcription of life in all its forms, including the darker parts. Lolita (Nabokov) and The Monk (Lewis) are masterpieces because they’re horrendous and lovely, appealing and tender at the same time, horror stories and love stories simultaneously. They plow the depths …
Nabokov thought fine literature should tickle your palate and tingle your nerves (paraphrasing a bit) but the concept is true. Fine literature should seep in through your skin, lodge in your every cell, and do unmentionable things to your limbic system. When I read Ulysses …
