1. THE CANON
It’s right there in the title. A declaration of intent, a self-creation myth, a promise or threat to deliver something epochal. With Big Bang (2019), David Bowman makes naked the writer’s wish, with trumpets blaring, to shoot himself from a canon of his own making. That he succeeded so spectacularly is doubly miraculous, given the author’s backstory and premature death over a decade ago.
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