The World According to Irving

Over ten years ago my friend lend me one of her father’s books. It was a tattered, often-borrowed German copy of “Owen Meany”, published by Diogenes.     John Irving took me by surprise, to say the least. I had just met the master of first lines. Take a look at the beginning of “A [...]

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The King and the Cobra

Marcel Krüger asked us to stop coming to his house, so people went to the Cobra instead. In early November Krüger had his first self-published book coming out, which compiled stories from his blog, his project Sonic Iceland and even some articles that had previously been published in real newspapers.     What better way [...]

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