I had the very good fortune to sip hot chocolate with Mark Z. Danielewski a few weeks ago and chat with him about Only Revolutions, film, freedom and fonts. Michele Reverte and I interviewed him for LAist and the interview is now up on said blog. If, for some bizarre reason, you need further prodding to get thee to the interview, I offer this excerpt:
"I think there’s a distinction: read Phillip K. Dick. Is he a great writer? Not per se. Is Jonathan Franzen a great writer in terms of his sentences? Yes. But conceptually, he’s not that compelling to me. The Corrections is a powerful metaphor and works with market theory, but at the same time, eh. But Phillip K. Dick is still out there and he keeps coming back for more. The twists that his brain got through are compelling, even if his sentences aren’t."
I will also offer that some previously unanswered questions about the book have been, yes, answered. And, true to form, quite a few remain...unanswered.
