Michael Pritchett
Michael Pritchett
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The Melancholy Fate of Capt. Lewis
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49 years old
United States
Last Login: 11/10/2009
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| General | (currently): bauhaus and deco architecture, cubism, late 18th-century occult novels, 16th-century English bibles and chivalric novels, “Red Scare” novels and films, occult roots of Nazism, 40s and 50s noir filmmaking. | | Music | AC/DC “Hell’s Bells,” Patty Smyth “Because The Night,” Black Sabbath “Iron Man,” Cranberries “Zombie,” Depeche Mode “Stripped.” | | Movies | The Deerhunter, Bladerunner, Three Days of the Condor, Angel at My Table, Matewan, Black Robe, Alien, Legend, Traffic. | | Television | CSI (Las Vegas), The Closer, Dead Like Me. | | Books | Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry, Second Skin by John Hawkes, Wise Blood by Flannery O’Connor, Play It As It Lays by Joan Didion, Catch-22 by Joseph Heller, Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison, To The Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf. | | Heroes | James Dean, any of the Beat writers, any of the blacklisted writers, John Lennon, Andy Warhol, Caroline Kennedy.
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| Status: | Single | | Zodiac Sign: | Capricorn |
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About me:
Lewis & Me: The strange thing is, I’m probably the most unlikely writer in a four-state area to write a historical novel and still don’t know if I consider myself a historical novelist. If I hadn’t included parallel 19th and 21st-century storylines, as a way to somehow connect my reality to Lewis’s, I couldn’t have written the book at all. What attracted me to Lewis’s story from the start was the absurdity of the mission itself, how Lewis & Clark were sent forth to find things that didn’t exist anymore or never did: an all-water route to the Pacific, the Northwest Passage, woolly mammoths, saber-toothed tigers, the 10 Lost Tribes of Israel, etc. For me, the book slowly morphed, changing from a study of Lewis’s short life and untimely death into an exploration of belief. What is it we believe to be true, about the present, about the past, and why do we believe it? And why were Clark’s and Lewis’s beliefs about their present reality so different that one married, had children and prospered, and the other didn’t? Therein lies a tale.
For more information about my novel, The Melancholy Fate of Capt. Lewis, you can visit my page on Unbridled Books' website. Or, click here to download a pdf version of the first two chapters of my novel (FREE)!
Fiction Hardcover, Unbridled Books
ISBN-13: 978-1-932961-41-6
6 x 9 / 416 Pages / $24.95
November 2007
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Who I'd like to meet:
I’d like to meet: Shakespeare, because he’ll have a cameo in my next book, along with his wife Anne Hathaway. Edgar Lee Masters, because he influenced Sherwood Anderson, who influenced Hemingway, who has cast his shadow over the whole 20th century of American writing. Emily Dickinson, because so little is known and she’s so great.
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