Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I have written fifteen hundred novels and novelettes in my time. Precious prosody go wrist in sleight of hand with the poem that floods then ebbs and then fifty years fly on by…OH the furore of flights of fantasy I have seen! For I appear to be eternal you see. Do not quake no do not shiver, for I do not ask for cherished cashola just that you read my cherished works with the greats in mind, for I have met them all. Dostoevsky (hates cheese), my GOD! Knut Hamsun (Gotta love his bedtime stories) Alberto Moravia (what a whore) Charles Bukowski (he sure did not like me lingering around him), Louis Ferdinand Celine (after the first ten minutes, proved to be a real conversationalist) August Strindberg (slap me right in the kisser but didn’t spit on my brown brogues, sweet mercy), Yukio Mishima ( I tried to talk him out of it) Hermann Hesse (did not like me referring to him as ole fairy cheeks in the company of widows especially).
-Follow the Feeling
-Twenty-first mankind blues (my favourite)
-The lovers (bonkers but new to literature)
-The general pointlessness of being (Coming of age written unlike anybody else)
What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
I am in the process of finishing a novel about time. The fairytale, the myth, the man (working title).
There are life’s ebbs and flows, part poetry, part prosody. Recurring motifs recycling themselves into new and intricate ways. It near enough sent me insane. Think Kobo Abe Kafka-esque dreams…
Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I am always attempting to quit.
I’d rather live a different life where I could use my limited resources (the mind and my wilting knees) to be financially free. Work then retire. Alas I struggle with the minds compulsions. I am drawn back in and overcome with the knowledge that this is pretty much the only thing I can do. I am nothing else ( I have made a really bad movie) I love travelling across Europe and walking up mountains, waiting for my rapid heart beat to revive then fall on down life’s scenic views…
but all I really wanna do is sit down, drink copious amounts of coffee, dig right into the heart and spread those Icarus wings towards the red setting sun.
What authors, or books have influenced you?
All the dead ones:
Knut Hamsun – Pan, mysteries,
Alberto Moravia- Boredom and contempt
Charles Bukowski – anything really.
Louis Ferdinand Celine – Journey to the end of the night
Herman Hesse, Yukio Mishima, Dostoevsky (hate spelling this legends name), Steve Tesich (Karoo is sublime), Strindberg and Baudelaire’s spirit lives on through me in a weird way.
and probably a fuck tonne more!
What are you working on now?
After I had gone insane I quickly dashed off another novel I am yet to re-read that takes the piss out of all culture, all ways of life but none more harsher than he is on himself, (which rings true for all human beings). For me this is the kind of book I’d like to read from another. again, I am yet to read it back through…could be rather shite!
What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
I only wish I knew. I am poor. I crave readers more than money. so….yeah, wish I knew.
If anybody finds any feel free to email me Ddavidcroot@gmail.com.
I will pay you with my novels nobody reads.
Do you have any advice for new authors?
If you can do something else. do ittttttttttttttttttttttttttttttt!
Self inflicted torture, mutilation of the dog-bollocks rotting soul takes its toll!
What is the best advice you have ever heard?
Don’t try.
What are you reading now?
Japanese literature. Just finished Rashomon and seventeen other stories.
Gonna learn about Schopenhauer and Kierkegaard
maybe some Chinese literature.
What’s next for you as a writer?
multitudinous attempts at pushing back the day of reckoning upon oneself!
If you were going to be stranded on a desert island and allowed to take 3 or 4 books with you what books would you bring?
I’m afraid I would not bring a book or trois!
I’d bring sexy lesbians!
just so I could watch their show again and again and again.
rejections already my hearts home but I’d enjoy their splendour!
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