4/22/08

DANIEL PINCHBECK - 2012 -THE RETURN OF QUETZALCOATL

2012
The Return of Quetzalcoatl

by Daniel Pinchbeck
Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin

Page 26, hardback.

"Like some embittered Dostoyevskian renegade I stopped caring about respectability, normalcy, or the literary and journalistic worlds in which I had tried to make my name. I lost interest in the stories that my culture was willing to tell me about the world - far more dangerously, I lost interest in my own story, which desperately needed a new plot."


Click on the title above to hear a 2006 reading of the book in San Francisco, by the author. (Close your eyes to hear him read though, this is a really crummy video!)