Narrative Reality

I was really impressed by this blog post about narrative by Matthew Cheney.  It touches on Reality Hunger, as well as a few other books that sound interesting, especially Vanishing Point by Ander Monson.

I wish I had written what Cheney wrote re Reality Hunger; then again, he has actually read it. I was mildly surprised to see that he writes for a "speculative fiction" web magazine, i.e. science fiction/fantasy. His essay is critically solid and literary in feel. I guess I need to widen my horizons.

"Narrative is reality: it makes reality. Neither word is stable, though, because both are built by and rely on human perception: language, thought, memory."