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Daniel James

https://danieljameswriter.com

@danjameswriter

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Buy The Unauthorised Biography of Ezra Maas special edition now from Valley Press.

After you've read the book, find out more about Ezra Maas by visiting the following online resources. Just watch out you don't fall down a digital rabbit hole:

Ezra Maas Wikipedia page.

http://ezramaas-wiki.org

Maas Foundation website.

https://www.ezramaas.com

Gateway books

Fighting Fantasy series novels - Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone

Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers / Better Than Life - Grant Naylor (Red Dwarf)

Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte

Orlando - Virginia Woolf

Dracula - Bram Stoker

His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman

Dubliners - James Joyce

Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable - Samuel Beckett

Recent reads /Looking forward to

Montano’s Malady - Enrique Vila-Matas

Case Study - Graeme Macrae Burnet

The Hour of The Star - Clarice Lispector

Life on Other Planets - Matt Cook

Libra - Don DeLillo

Aftermath - Preti Taneja

The Third Hotel - Laura Van Den Berg

Top 10

The Big Sleep - Raymond Chandler / The Galton Case by Ross MacDonald

Collected Stories - Philip K Dick

The Road -  Cormac McCarthy

The Eye of The Beholder - Marc Behm

Falling Angel -  William Hjortsberg

Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable - Samuel Beckett

Lanark - Alasdair Gray

The New York Trilogy - Paul Auster

Collected Stories - Borges

The Crying of Lot 49 - Thomas Pynchon

Also mentioned during the interview

The work of Mark Fisher particularly Ghosts of My LIfe and The Weird and the Eerie

The fiction of Marc Nash

Detecting Texts: The Metaphysical Detective Story from Poe to Postmodernism