![]() Mu, the void, is not so immediate.” Mu, the narrator explains, is “the emptiness at the heart of existence to which everything returns.” It’s a place the narrator longs for–part of the reason why he BASE jumps, and part of the reason why he meditates, seeking “the Blue Triangle,” where he stores his “egoless self.” Out of a plane you’re too high and have no real sense of the bottom. Here, in a skydiving scene: “At 12,500 feet a jump doesn’t even feel like falling–more like being at the center of a cold explosion.” And just a little later: “Skydiving doesn’t compare to BASE. You can hear foretokens of True Detective’s Rust Cohle in the narrator of that story, who speaks in that same blend of worldly competence and metaphysical insight. It’s the opening piece in Between Here and the Yellow Sea, Pizzolatto’s book of short stories. Pizzolatto sold it to the Atlantic Monthly, along with one other story, at the age of 25. The first short story he ever wrote was “ Ghost Birds,” an eerie tale of love, BASE jumping, and the way of the samurai. He taught literature and writing at UNC-Chapel Hill, the University of Chicago, and DePauw University. ![]() ![]() Nic Pizzolatto was born in New Orleans, raised in Lake Charles, and educated at both the University of Arkansas and Louisiana State University. ![]() Of all the great “novelistic” television shows we’ve seen over the last fifteen years, it’s interesting that only one–HBO’s current breakout hit, True Detective–was created by a novelist. ![]()
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