These questions were developed by Jennifer Johnson, Reference Librarian for the Springdale (Arkansas) Public Library. One of the most interesting and controversial encounters I’ve made through a book. It actually makes for a more satisfying experience.' ( Excerpted from EV Grief.)įirst he steals the oxygen from you, then he spits it right back in your face. Because we can’t Google anyone we’re forced to make up our own minds about what’s happening in the narrative.
'Also writing anonymously allows me to inhabit the reader more effectively. I love that there’s no cheesy photo on the backcover and that we don’t have to hear about how the writer lives in Connecticut or San Francisco or Brooklyn or wherever with his two dogs and a cat. Currently-lives in New York, New York USA.Say there was a novel in which Holden Caulfield was an alcoholic and Lolita was a photographer’s assistant and, somehow, they met in Bright Lights, Big Cityĭiary of an Oxygen Thief is an honest, hilarious, and heartrending novel, but above all, a very realistic account of what we do to each other and what we allow to have done to us.