David Lynch advanced to the front ranks of international
cinema in 1977 with the release of his first film, the startlingly
original Eraserhead. Over the course of his career, Lynch was
nominated for three Best Director Academy Awards (The Elephant Man,
Blue Velvet, and Mulholland Drive), won the Palme d’Or for Wild at
Heart, swept the country with Twin Peaks mania in 1990 when his
groundbreaking television series premiered on ABC, and established
himself as an artist of tremendous range and wit. He is the author
of a previous book, Catching the Big Fish, on Transcendental
Meditation. David Lynch died in January 2025.
Kristine McKenna is a widely published critic and journalist
who wrote for the Los Angeles Times from 1976 through 1998, and has
been a close friend and interviewer of David Lynch since 1979. Her
profiles and criticism have appeared in Artforum, The New York
Times, ARTnews, Vanity Fair, The Washington Post, and Rolling
Stone. Her books include The Ferus Gallery: A Place to Begin and
two collections of interviews.
“Insightful . . . an impressively industrious and comprehensive
account of Lynch’s career.”—The New York Times Book Review
“A memorable portrait of one of cinema’s great auteurs . . .
provides a remarkable insight into [David] Lynch’s intense
commitment to the ‘art life.’ ”—The Guardian
“This is the best book by and about a movie director since Elia
Kazan’s A Life (1988) and Michael Powell’s A Life in
Movies (1986). But Room to Dream is more enchanting
or appealing than those classics. . . . What makes this book
endearing is its chatty, calm account of how genius in America can
be a matter-of-fact defiance of reality that won’t alarm your dog
or save mankind. It’s the only way to dream in so disturbed a
country.”—San Francisco Chronicle
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