The Book

As outlined in an e-mail sent to registered members of this site earlier today, the online version of the first draft of Defying Gravity: The Parallel Universe of T. Townsend Brown is no longer available. Please visit "The Second Draft" section of the forums for details on where we go from here.

Somebody at the New York Times seems to have been shadowing my days here in The Garret: Writing narrative nonfiction is grueling, lonely work haunted by the question of whether anyone will read the finished book. “You’re always worried, ‘Am I just banging my head against the wall?’ ” said Robert Whitaker… Adds Garrison Keillor:

Do you remember where we left off?  Does this sound familiar? That rustling sound you hear is the sound of a curtain drawing closed, and the apparition you see behind the curtain is the vanishing figure of Thomas Townsend Brown. That was the end of Chapter 43: For the Good of the Service – which,

Well, I had my vacation, followed by the trip to Utah for Pem’s funeral. Now, I guess, we’ll have to write this week off as a “working vacation.” I had myself marching along with a pretty steady rhythm before the trip to Mexico.  A typical week goes like this:  I get a new chapter online

As I was preparing Chapter 10 for publication to the website today, it suddenly dawned on me that I could add some images of Dr. Millikan and his experiments.  And then I realized that I hadn’t included any images in any of the chapters I’ve uploaded so far, so I went back and added pictures