My first novel, The Book of Flying, was published by Riverhead Books in 2004. Ursula K. Le Guin said of the book that it was "original in concept, elegant in language, funny, cruel, and tender," and Booklist called it "a beautiful and haunting modern fable that reads like exquisite poetry." It has been published in a number of countries. My second novel, The Book on Fire, came out in 2009. John Miedema called it a "pure, uncut fix of bibliophilia," and Ian Watson termed it "a book of wonderful, consuming obsession."
I have published articles on subjects such as architecture and Alexandrian history, as well as a translation of Arthur Rimbaud’s The Illuminations. My translations, fiction, and essays have been featured in Rhubarb Magazine, on NPR, and elsewhere.
I am married, with two children.
Tolstoy, Nabokov, Le Guin, Lawrence Durrell, Angela Carter, Cormac McCarthy, George Eliot. Anna Karenina, Fiesta, All the Pretty Horses, Earthsea, The Alexandria Quartet, Housekeeping, The Bloody Chamber, Seven Gothic Tales, The Mill on the Floss, Narnia, Lord Jim, Money, Gormenghast.
No one has written on Keith Miller's wall.
No one has written on Keith Miller's wall.