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.
A photograph from 1990 or 1991 of an unidentified saint on a pedestal.
If this image were included in an extra-illustrated binding of the novel Necessary Errors, the binder would be at liberty to position it pretty much anywhere. (For an explanation of extra-illustration, click here.)
For the Atlantic’s By Heart series, I’ve written an essay about memorizing and re-memorizing W. H. Auden’s poem “In Praise of Limestone.”
A photograph from 1990 or 1991 of reliefs by Richard Luksch on the façade of a building on Kaprova Street in Prague.
If this image were included in an extra-illustrated binding of the novel Necessary Errors, the binder could position it pretty much anywhere. (For an explanation of extra-illustration, click here.)
Penguin invited Brian Spinks, the co-creator of Wired magazine’s Codefellas series, to devise an animated book trailer for Necessary Errors. I think it’s kind of ingenious.
Tonight (Monday) at 7pm, I’ll be reading from the novel and having a conversation about it with Paris Review editor Lorin Stein at McNally Jackson Books, 52 Prince St., New York. Please come by!
