David Lynch’s memoir/autobiography Room to Dream and a message from an old acquaintance now living in Mexico have stirred up memories of my experiences with the filmmaker in the early ’80s, when I wrote about Eraserhead and worked on Dune.
Remarkably, despite the fame of Fassbinder’s adaptation of Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980), author Alfred Döblin remains little known among English-speaking readers, with few of his monumental novels translated. My brother Chris has made it his mission to change that situation with the launch of Beyond Alexanderplatz, a website devoted to his own on-going translation project.