The Wellesley Sleepwalker and Robert Walser
While I understand the controversy, I wonder why more people aren’t first worried about the sleepwalker himself. I am, but that’s probably because he reminds me of someone: Robert Walser.
Few writers carry language closer to the heart of their fiction than Diego Marani. In his work it assumes a central role, actually becoming character, story, and even setting.
A tale of two bookstores.
The guy who wrote Moby-Dick was dead for thirty years before anyone realized he’d written the first Great American Novel. Gene Wolfe is still around, but he’s 81. Get a jump on posterity and read him now.