BearManor Media News — jules verne

Q&A with the author of An Amputee’s Guide to Jules Verne, Nick DiMartino 1. What in the world led you to read all of Jules Verne? It was an accident. I like exploring an author in depth. I was a bookseller on the U. W. campus for fifty years. My top priority activity is reading. Lately I’d been amassing the works of Henry James, Balzac, Melville, Dumas and Sir Walter Scott, thinking I’d spend my retirement reading the great respectable literary “heavies” I’d avoided all my life. Instead, I opened an unread advance of a Verne novel I’d never heard...