MY latest piece on Philip K. Dick is the only one built of all-new material: That is, none of this appears in the LA Times story about the writer’s Orange County years that ran a couple of Sundays back.
This latest piece, which just went up on the Hero Complex blog, looks at the impact Southern California had on Dick’s work. Did it move him toward an interest in consumerism, religion, or change his tone? I spoke to novelist Jonathan Lethem, a local professor, a veteran of SoCal’s punk scene and Dick authority David Gill to get at the question of how Orange County led PKD to VALIS, A Scanner Darkly, Timothy Archer and others.
The sixth and final piece should run tomorrow.