Author Jonathan Carroll on Writing

“A lot of people . . . read because it’s comfortable. They don’t like to be jolted or jarred. But I think that in art itself one of the great pleasures is to be jolted and jarred.“ Jonathan Carroll, the acclaimed genre-bending modern fantasy and slipsteam author, dares his readers to subvert their expectations and leave their comfort zones. His dazzling books straddle the line between reality and the surreal, a technique that has prompted fans to compare him to South American magical realists.
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