A photograph from 1990 or 1991 of a Prague tram.
If this image were included in an extra-illustrated binding of the novel Necessary Errors, it might follow page 159. (For an explanation of extra-illustration, click here.)
Almost history
Over at NYRgallery, a relatively new blog at the New York Review of Books devoted to sounds and images, I share a group of photographs that I took in 1991 of Plzeň, a city in western Czechoslovakia, as it celebrated its liberation from the Nazis by American troops nearly half a century earlier.
San Francisco radio
I was on the radio in San Francisco last week. Jim Foster of KNEW interviewed me for his program Conversations on the Coast. And I had a great time on KALW’s West Coast Live, where Sedge Thomson asked about Prague’s trams and about cutting away from sex scenes (streamable here, with my appearance starting at about 75:25).
A counterfeit tram ticket
This fake tram ticket was a prop in a piece of public performance art—or maybe just a prank. The design and the paper were identical to a real ticket, but the text gives the game away.
If this image were included in an extra-illustrated binding of the novel Necessary Errors, it might follow page 156. (For an explanation of extra-illustration, click here.)
A review in the Boston Globe, and a video interview
In the Boston Globe, Jon Garelick has written a generous review of my novel, in which he notes that “Crain is his own meta-critic, making literary analysis a convincing part of Jacob’s narrative.”
A couple of months ago, in the spring, Rich Fahle conducted an interview with me about the novel at New York’s Book Expo, and Fahle’s new website, Bibliostar TV, has just released a video of the interview.