David MacKinnon should be a household name in households where literature holds sway. Trucks groaning under the weight of boxes of his books should be making their way to campuses across the country each fall, as serious English professors make his novels required reading for skulls full of mush, in hopes of transforming them into […]
“The writing reminds me by turns of Henry Miller, Hunter Thompson, Malaparte and Blaise Cendrars…Leper Tango also put me in mind of a James M. Cain novel, Postman, especially. Only better written. The observations, sidereal stuff, similes, metaphors, analogies, all that is superb. Also, I like the supporting cast, Tranh, especially, but the second tier […]
The themes of Cendrars’ work resemble those of the floating world – vagabonding, travel, daily work of ordinary people, criminals and pilgrims all of which are used to evoke the contrary, i.e. the unascertainable, ephemeral world. Cendrars greatest con was convincing the world that he wasn’t mystical. But he was mystical in the grounded way […]