Writing
Novels
The Secrets of the Camera Obscura
"A philosophical striptease on the nature of truth and revelation."
-Kathryn Harrison
"Definitely a writer to watch."
-The Washington Post
"Stinging wisdom about how knowledge and coincidence can craze us."
-The New York Times Book Review
"A fine and inventive first work of fiction,
layered with observation on the nature of preserving or abusing
history, on perception and deceit, and the dangers of accumulating a
life's passion. . . A hypnotic romp."
-San Francisco Chronicle
The Third Eye
"With sure precision the author achieves a pervasive sense of noirish disquiet."
-The New Yorker
"A stunning read, gripping and suspenseful."
-Cosmopolitan
"The Third Eye goes beyond the obvious sexual
compulsion of the voyer to examine more complex and subtle
psychological terran in which the hunger for aesthetic perfection and
control is overwhelming, disabling. David Knowles is an extremely
clever writer; The Third Eye is a suspenseful and
–yes–perfectly controlled study of illusion and delusion,
obsession and its aftermath."
-Geoff Dyer
Links
Interview with artist Liz Cohen