Books constantly change even though the words are the same.
The world changes, people change, people find a book at the right moment and it answers something, some need or desire. At the age of eight he bumped into a huge baseball star and had no pencil to get his autograph - after that, he was never again caught without a writing tool. The New York Trilogy is his deepest and most accomplished work. Influences Samuel Beckett, Knut Hamsun. His favourite book is Don Quixote.