"Sun House is like entering another civilization, a stunner. It is disorienting to wander into a new country where no passport is required. There you are. The reader is being read.
Sun House took me to an unforgettable world, a rich and sacred land, where heaven and horse sense meet, an oxbow of the human spirit, a most fantastic piece of literature. Holy beaver, holy white pelican, holy pipistrelle! Unbelievably brilliant.
What allowed you to move forward on this? Only the Russians—Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky—had this patience and grandeur of vision. No one today. David, who are you?
PAUL HAWKEN, author of the forthcoming Carbon: The Book of Life, and of the New York Times Best Sellers Regeneration, Drawdown, and Blessed Unrest
“Sun House is one of the greatest imaginative achievements I have encountered in a lifetime of reading. Page after page brims with invention, mirth, knowledge, irreverence, and deep wisdom. I know of no one who better captures the beauty of the natural world or the ineffable experience of transcendence… David James Duncan transports the reader into a world more radiant and vivid than thi
David James Duncan
David James Duncan is the author of the cult-classic novels The River Why and The Brothers K, the story collection River Teeth, the nonfiction collection and National Book Award finalist, My Story as Told by Water, andthe best-selling God Laughs & Plays. The release of his much-anticipated novel Sun House arrived with much critical acclaim, including this comment from Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Powers (The Overstory): “The time, energy, focus, precision, invention, scholarship, fun, joy, love, courage and compassion that went into making this novel boggle my mind. Just contemplating its creation is a spiritual journey in itself.” David lives on a charming little trout stream in Missoula, Montana, in accord with his late friend Jim Harrison’s advice to finish his life disguised as a creek.
Editor&#;s Note: The first part of this post is the printed version of our interview with David James Duncan, found in the March + April issue of Bend Magazine. Following, you will find the full interview.
As sure as waters flow, time marches on. In , rivers and years intersect upon the 40th anniversary of the publication of The River Why, a novel that has become a dog-eared classic in fly boxes of fishermen and in libraries of those who love language, natural resources and life. The book was one of the San Francisco Chronicle’s “20th Century&#;s Best Books of the American West,” and led to Duncan’s next works—the National Book Award finalist My Story As Told By Water, the bestseller and winner of the Pacific Northwest Book Award for nonfiction, God Laughs & Plays and The Brothers K, subject of the Deschutes Public Library’s “A Novel Idea.” His new novel Sun House will be published in August. Words between Bend Magazine’s editor and David James Duncan had him musing about his work and our larger relationship to rivers and to one another.
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Emmanuel Vaughan-LeeWelcome to the show, David. It&#;s lovely to be in conversation with you today.
David James DuncanVery happy to be here, Emmanuel.
EVSo I must say I loved Sun House. One of the most meaningful books, fiction or nonfiction, that I&#;ve read in years. Really, really moved me. And I wanted to start by asking you about the genesis of the book. And in the book the main narrator, who is nicknamed the Holy Goat, he describes kind of the impetus behind the book, but it&#;s also stated very emphatically at the beginning of your acknowledgments, where you write, &#;Though I&#;d seen countless op-eds calling for a change in consciousness if humanity is to survive, I&#;d seen zero op-ed descriptions of what this consciousness looks, feels, tastes, sounds, and lives like as it addresses inescapable biological and spiritual realities with the love, truthfulness, and justice they demand.” I mean, that&#;s a very powerful and creative mandate to begin a book with, to aim to create something that brings this consciousness to life. Tell me about this.
DJDA big impetus for me kind of tightrope walks along the edge of spiritual secrecy, but the Beguine mystics,
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David James Duncan
David James Duncan is the author of the cult-classic novels The River Why and The Brothers K, the story collection River Teeth, the nonfiction collection and National Book Award finalist, My Story as Told by Water, andthe best-selling God Laughs & Plays. The release of his much-anticipated novel Sun House arrived with much critical acclaim, including this comment from Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Powers (The Overstory): “The time, energy, focus, precision, invention, scholarship, fun, joy, love, courage and compassion that went into making this novel boggle my mind. Just contemplating its creation is a spiritual journey in itself.” David lives on a charming little trout stream in Missoula, Montana, in accord with his late friend Jim Harrison’s advice to finish his life disguised as a creek.
Editor&#;s Note: The first part of this post is the printed version of our interview with David James Duncan, found in the March + April issue of Bend Magazine. Following, you will find the full interview.
As sure as waters flow, time marches on. In , rivers and years intersect upon the 40th anniversary of the publication of The River Why, a novel that has become a dog-eared classic in fly boxes of fishermen and in libraries of those who love language, natural resources and life. The book was one of the San Francisco Chronicle’s “20th Century&#;s Best Books of the American West,” and led to Duncan’s next works—the National Book Award finalist My Story As Told By Water, the bestseller and winner of the Pacific Northwest Book Award for nonfiction, God Laughs & Plays and The Brothers K, subject of the Deschutes Public Library’s “A Novel Idea.” His new novel Sun House will be published in August. Words between Bend Magazine’s editor and David James Duncan had him musing about his work and our larger relationship to rivers and to one another.
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Emmanuel Vaughan-LeeWelcome to the show, David. It&#;s lovely to be in conversation with you today.
David James DuncanVery happy to be here, Emmanuel.
EVSo I must say I loved Sun House. One of the most meaningful books, fiction or nonfiction, that I&#;ve read in years. Really, really moved me. And I wanted to start by asking you about the genesis of the book. And in the book the main narrator, who is nicknamed the Holy Goat, he describes kind of the impetus behind the book, but it&#;s also stated very emphatically at the beginning of your acknowledgments, where you write, &#;Though I&#;d seen countless op-eds calling for a change in consciousness if humanity is to survive, I&#;d seen zero op-ed descriptions of what this consciousness looks, feels, tastes, sounds, and lives like as it addresses inescapable biological and spiritual realities with the love, truthfulness, and justice they demand.” I mean, that&#;s a very powerful and creative mandate to begin a book with, to aim to create something that brings this consciousness to life. Tell me about this.
DJDA big impetus for me kind of tightrope walks along the edge of spiritual secrecy, but the Beguine mystics,
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