Tag Archives: books

David Lynch, 1946 – 2025.

Posted on January 16, 2025 by robchristopher

RIP David Lynch. Though I knew this day would come, I’m still very sad. I can’t calculate the effect that seeing the very first episode of Twin Peaks had on me when I was only 14, except that it quite … Continue reading →

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RIP Gary Indiana

Posted on October 24, 2024 by robchristopher

RIP Gary Indiana, the matchless novelist, essayist, and author. I was fortunate enough to have dinner with him one night in June 2022. His publisher Dan Simon set it up after I had expressed my love of his writing. Over … Continue reading →

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Quotes from J.G. Ballard

Posted on September 16, 2023 by robchristopher

I picked up an advance copy of J.G. Ballard: Selected Nonfiction 1962-2007 and found it wonderfully stimulating, provocative, and prescient. It’s well worth reading. There are striking insights on every page but I wanted to jot down a few of … Continue reading →

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A new project (!)

Posted on November 30, 2022 by robchristopher

I am beyond thrilled to announce that as my next film project, I will be adapting Gary Indiana’s wicked satire Depraved Indifference. This blurb from the publisher Semiotext(e) / Native Agents sums up its story quite effectively: “[The novel] follows … Continue reading →

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3 things about D.W. Young’s THE BOOKSELLERS

Posted on April 21, 2020 by robchristopher

The Booksellers [2019] 1. A collection of purses. 2. She wraps her arms around the set of Balzac. “These are mine!” 3. Fran Lebowitz on seeing books in the garbage: “It’s like seeing a human head.”

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Not worth reading.

Posted on November 20, 2016 by robchristopher

“Every book has sentences in it the writer hates, that the writer cannot get rid of, that the writer cannot live without. Any writer who cuts out every sentence that he hates is a writer not worth reading.” — Daniel … Continue reading →

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My review of THE SECRET HISTORY OF TWIN PEAKS.

Posted on November 7, 2016 by robchristopher

I had the great privilege to review Mark Frost’s new novel for Booklist. Check out my spolier-free review!

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Reading diaries.

Posted on January 27, 2016 by robchristopher

“If on some occasion I happen to read something in it—because, for instance, I need to know a date—I am always disconcerted: to find that two or five years ago I came to exactly the same conclusion—only to forget it … Continue reading →

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Knowing not knowing.

Posted on March 17, 2015 by robchristopher

“If you don’t know what to do, there’s actually a chance of doing something new. As long as you know what you’re doing, nothing much of interest is going to happen.” – Philip Glass, Words Without Music

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Masking the symptom.

Posted on March 20, 2014 by robchristopher

We are born with a mortal illness, Seth concludes, and spend half our lives or all our lives denying that we have this illness. The aging process is the visual symptom of this illness and we devote our whole lives … Continue reading →

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