David Lynch advanced to the front ranks of international
cinema in 1977 with the release of his first film, the startlingly
original Eraserhead. Since then, Lynch has been nominated for three
Best Director Academy Awards, for The Elephant Man, Blue Velvet and
Mulholland Drive, awarded the Palme d'Or for Wild at Heart and
established himself as an artist of tremendous range and wit. In
1990, Twin Peaks mania swept the country when his groundbreaking
television series premiered on ABC. A new season of Twin Peaks
aired in May 2017 to widespread acclaim. Lynch died in January
2025.
Kristine McKenna is a widely published critic and journalist
who wrote for the Los Angeles Times from 1977 through 1998. Her
profiles and criticism have appeared in Artforum, The New York
Times, Artnews, Vanity Fair, The Washington Post and Rolling Stone
Magazine.
If you expected a David Lynch biography to be just like any other
biography, you've never seen a David Lynch movie . . .
Fascinating
* * New York Times * *
A hybrid biography bulging with more than 100 interviews . . . it
shows us Lynch the artist, the director, the lover, the child . . .
Room to Dream provides contours and edges, brief splashes of
insight and teasing tugs on the line. But the man at the centre
remains a beautiful mystery . . . Illuminating
* * Guardian * *
Lynch is the master of the perverse, the unsettling and the plain
bonkers
* * Sunday Times * *
Lynch's life as an artist is genuinely fascinating, and his
observations on it are illuminating
* * Mail on Sunday * *
Intriguing . . . David Lynch has never lacked room to dream, for
which we and he must thank our lucky stars
* * Daily Telegraph * *
David Lynch's memoir illuminates the origins of his art . . . the
humour and eccentricity of Mr Lynch's own reminiscences and
observations are the book's main pleasure
* * The Economist * *
Reassuringly unconventional . . . Engrossing . . . Lynch writes
like he speaks. He's disarmingly direct, cheerfully profane and
prone to bursts of giddy enthusiasm
* * The Big Issue * *
Room to Dream is a memorable portrait of one of cinema's great
auteurs . . . Provides a remarkable insight into Lynch's intense
commitment to the "art life", from his painting, photography and
music to furniture design
* * Guardian * *
With the publication of Room to Dream, he has sought to reinvent
the celebrity memoir
* * Financial Times * *
Playfully disrupts the genre of memoir-writing
* * Financial Times * *
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