Life's a drag for the 25-year-old narrator of DBC Pierre's latest novel, "Lights Out in Wonderland." According to Gabriel Brockwell, our modern-day "Wonderland" is nothing more than an "empire of ...
What characters say to each other in a book will make or break it. Their dialogues not only move the story along, mask and unveil truth, slow or quicken pace, cause or dampen conflict; they make the ...
Born in Australia but raised in Mexico, DBC Pierre grew up an outsider, and a literary vocation made a virtue of necessity. "I had to study the gap between values," he recalls in Release the Bats: ...
Kismet – don't knock it. I mean the little flurries of coincidences and symbols that seem to herald approaching change. I've been informally watching the dynamics of change for as long as I can ...
You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. "Write in a reckless fever. Rewrite in a cardigan." That morsel of wisdom is one of 32 "mindbites" ...
“The voice came out first,” says DBC Pierre, after a party in New York to celebrate winning the Booker Prize for his first novel, Vernon God Little. “I wrote the first draft in about five weeks. Then ...
Author DBC Pierre has won the 2003 Booker Prize for his novel Vernon God Little. The author, whose real name is Peter Finlay, beat nominees Margaret Atwood, Damon Galgut, Zoe Heller, Clare Morrall, ...
DBC Pierre’s novels center on crucial misunderstandings, mistaken identity, the wrongly accused; as the plots press on the stakes are rapidly raised, with the simplest confusions spiraling out into ...
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