
A Conversation with David Valerio
Clerestory (Bryan Kam)
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I Love Tolstoy
Tolstoy is a fascinating... I mean, he learned, we can land on his own to just read... I don't know. He was kind of like how he's an anthropologist in writing,. In his examination of other texts, he seems like in that philology spirit but maybe not in the sense of what he was doing. Basically, he took all the gospels and turned them into one unified story. It's such a Tolstoy move. That's an example of him going back to you.
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