In “How I Read” for The New York Review of Books, Tim Parks gives advice on reading actively, pen in hand, searching for connections in the text, parsing metaphor and meaning:
I do believe reading is an active …
Jeff VanderMeer recently interviewed me for Omnivoracious, the Amazon editors’ blog. VanderMeer peels back the cover for a look inside No One You Know. Subjects discussed: the influence of Borges and Paul Auster, math as a labyrinth, the joys of coffee and a blank page, the difficulty of getting the cornbread right, and what you can do to get yourself invited to dinner. Read the interview here.