In the early 1990’s Gordon Dahlquist was one of my Columbia University coursemates in the MFA Playwriting program.
Gordon was always brilliant and unique and his innovative and quirky
mind spoke genius ideas many minds could not easily comprehend.
The minds at Random House got Gordon’s genius for storytelling and for
crafting the human spirit from the page and they paid him $2,000,000.00
USD last September for the right to publish his 1,300 page novel, The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters.
I
am thrilled for Gordon he hit so big and so hard with what is reported
to be an exceptionally fine and nuanced novel. I believe the book is
available for purchase in August, and I also believe it took a decade
to write — proving how faith and hardship share an inseverable
kinship in the necessary creation of meaningful art — so keep an eye
out for Gordon’s great lifeforce work:
