Author Jonathan Carroll on Writing

A lot of people. .. read because it s comfortable. They don t like to be jolted or jarred. But I think that in art itself one of the great pleasures is to be jolted and Jonathan Carroll, the acclaimed genrebending modern fantasy and slipsteam author, dares his readers to subvert their expectations and leave their comfort zones. His dazzling books straddle the line between reality and the surreal, a technique that has prompted fans to compare him to South American magical realists.