Emmy-Award-winning filmmaker J.J. Abrams has produced, directed, or written films and television shows including Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Fringe, Lost, Alias, Felicity, Star Trek, Cloverfield, Mission: Impossible, and more. Doug Dorst teaches writing at Texas State University. He is the author of the PEN/Hemingway-nominated novel Alive in Necropolis and the collection The Surf Guru. His work has appeared in McSweeney's, Ploughshares, Epoch, and elsewhere. Dorst is also a three-time Jeopardy! champion.
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intimate and ingeniously visual way it shows how others' words
become pathways to our lives and relationships." --Washington
Post
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profound and tremendous work of art."--The Miami Herald
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. . An audacious literary achievement that calls to mind Vladimir
Nabokov's Pale Fire, Chris Ware's Building Stories
and even Charles Portis' Masters of Atlantis." --Miami
Herald
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its mysteries and intrigues, this is a book about the value of
books, and what they can offer us that other storytelling mediums
cannot." --Wired
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European author, you couldn't choose a better team." --Joshua
Rothan, New Yorker
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