“Such are the perfections of fiction...Everything it teaches is useless insofar as structuring your life: you can’t prop up anything with fiction. It, in fact, teaches you just that. That in order to attempt to employ its specific wisdom is a sign of madness...There is more profit in an hour’s talk with Billy Graham than in a reading of Joyce. Graham might conceivably make you sick, so that you might move, go somewhere to get well. But Joyce just sends you out into the street, where the world goes on, solid as a bus. If you met Joyce and said 'Help me,' he’d hand you a copy of Finnegans Wake. You could both cry.” – Gilbert Sorrentino, Imaginative Qualities of Actual Things


Wednesday, June 16, 2010

See (and Hear) Me Read at the Wheeler Centre on Mon., June 21st

On Monday, June 21 at 6 p.m., I'll be reading at the Wheeler Centre for Books, Writing and Ideas in Melbourne as part of their Debut Mondays program. If you are on Facebook, you can RSVP to the event here.
Posted by Emmett Stinson at 1:37 PM

1 comment:

hackpacker said...

Look forward to hearing from the book.

June 17, 2010 at 9:09 AM

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