Victor LaValle
Victor LaValle
Victor LaValleis an American author who was raised in the Flushing and Rosedale neighborhoods of Queens, New York. He is the author of a short-story collection, Slapboxing with Jesus and three novels, The Ecstatic, Big Machine and The Devil in Silver. LaValle writes fiction primarily, though he has also written essays and book reviews for GQ, Essence Magazine, The Fader, and The Washington Post, among others...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth3 February 1972
CountryUnited States of America
I know that many authors say editors don't edit anymore, but that's not been true in my experience.
I spend lots of time on the Web, some of it even useful.
I wanted to write a story set in the Lovecraftian universe that didn't gloss over the uglier implications of his worldview.
I weighed 25 stone, and I didn't stand nine feet tall, so the weight didn't sit well on me. As big as a house? No. I was as big as an estate.
It's tough to write beautifully about ugly things, but Mitchell S. Jackson makes it look easy.
Lonely women destroy themselves; lonely men threaten the world.
My three obsessions are mental illness, horror and religion.
No one ever knows if a book is good until they read the book.
People use the notion of God to bully people and hurt people, when we can use the concept to respect and uplift.
Since Queens is the most ethnically diverse plot of land on Earth, we had tenants from all over the globe. The whole world in one building.
The devil that stayed with me most vividly was the one from the cover of Iron Maiden's 'Number of the Beast' album.
The horror genre is vast and full of brilliance. Stephen King, Shirley Jackson, Herman Melville, the book of Esther. I'll happily join that list.
'The Sundial' is written with the kind of humor that would make a guillotine laugh.
Try imagining James Joyce not writing about being a Catholic.