The Message: On Haunting

The ABC January Discussion Part 1

In the first chapter of The Message, Coates talks about being haunted by a story he read. That haunting drove him to ask questions, research, and wake up to an issue he hadn’t known about. On page 20 he writes, “But then a writer told me a story and I saw something essential and terrible about the world. All our conversations of technique, of rhythm and…