Tag: Great Are The Myths
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GREAT ARE THE MYTHS – Prologue
What follows is my novel GREAT ARE THE MYTHS serialised over the summer of 2026.
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To See Someone Truly: On Great Are the Myths
There is a moment near the beginning of this novel that contains, in miniature, everything the novel will spend three hundred pages unfolding. The boy has come to visit Birdie’s house for the first time. He is thirteen, working-class, new to Memphis, not entirely sure why he has been invited. The house is enormous —…
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The Second Novel: On the Chapter Titles of Great Are the Myths
Great Are the Myths has sixty-six chapters. It also has a prologue, a section heading, a commencement, a coda, and an author’s note. But before any of that — before the first sentence, before Birdie’s voice begins — there is a title. And then another. And then sixty-four more. Read in sequence, the chapter titles…
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The Companion Who Lives in Your Head: Imaginary Friends, Spirit Guides, and the Inner Life of the Boy
An Essay on Reading Great Are the Myths “What if you’re my imaginary friend?” The boy asks this near the very end. They are lying side by side on sun loungers in the California desert, covered in blankets, the way they used to lie in the garden in Memphis when they were thirteen and fourteen…
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Great Are the Myths — Now Streaming
I’ve been quietly doing something I’ve wanted to try for a long time: turning my novel Great Are the Myths into a serialized audio reading. Instead of waiting for the traditional publishing route to unfold, I decided to release the book directly — chapter by chapter — as a podcast. It has been a surprisingly…
