I found a new literary genre with which I feel particularly aligned: biographies of writers written by other writers. By calling it “new,” I don’t mean it’s an emerging trend, but rather a type of novel whose evocative power I had never experienced before. I started with Philip Dick’s science fiction when I read the book about him by Emmanuel Carrère, which I liked so much that it made me passionate about both writers. Now, thanks to Michel Houellebecq’s biography of H. P. Lovecr...
