There’s nothing traumatic. I got hit on the head with an ax when I was 11 years old and almost died, but it wasn’t sexual or emotional for me, it was just a drag.
There’s nothing traumatic. I got hit on the head with an ax when I was 11 years old and almost died, but it wasn’t sexual or emotional for me, it was just a drag.
“This is the quality of resonance that we’re after, such that the book means one thing to ourselves, and one thing to the next person, and continuing communities of readers are able to project their own meanings onto it, and if you’re really lucky, or really good, continuing generations of readers. Staying in print is really about the ability to continue resonating long after the historical moment in which you made your novel.“
Patrick McGrath