Bruce Wagner dropped out of Beverly Hills High and worked in bookstores, and as an ambulance and limo driver. His books include Force Majeure (1991), Wild Palms (a graphic novel, 1993) I'm Losing You (1996), I'll Let You Go (2002), Still Holding (2003), Chrsyanthemum Palace (2005), Memorial (2006) and Dark Stars (2012). He also has worked since the 1980s in film and televison as both a writer and director.
LARB would like him to write about Carlos Casteneda for us.
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"Read. Always read. No one can take that away from you."... More
"The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not." — Gertrude Stein... More
"I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead." — Samuel Goldwyn... More
"All lurid, unsavory, gruesome illustrations shall be eliminated." — Comics Code, 1954... More
"Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television." —Woody Allen... More
"There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them.... More
"Art is making something out of nothing and selling it." — Frank Zappa... More
