This month I’m posting excerpts from earlier drafts of Jellyfish Have Eyes that feature the relationships between Ricardo Stzein and other key characters in the novel. Ricardo’s troubles began when he was browsing through a book he purchased on vision in invertebrates. He had studied the eyes of chicken and mice for twenty years, but [...]
This month I’m posting excerpts from earlier drafts of Jellyfish Have Eyes that feature the relationships between Ricardo Stzein and other key characters in the novel. The last two sentences of this excerpt are the most impactful. In a completely fictional, partly cynical way they capture a major theme of the book supporting basic research. It [...]
Being a slow reader, I’ve dreamed for years how helpful it would be if I could download the contents of a book into my brain – wirelessly, of course. Imagine the time saved! I could get through War and Peace in less than an hour. “But it would take the enjoyment out of reading,” my [...]
Jellyfish Have Eyes by Joram Piatigorsky. Fiction. Piatigorsky’s debut novel is a suspenseful thriller mixing the biological sciences – research into the surprisingly fascinating world of jellyfish eyes – and politics.
Final drafts, like any marketed product, look polished, straightforward and consistent, but that’s not how they got there. Much is left out of any published book, or any final product for that matter. Final products shine as the tips of the creative process. Readers get little information on what thoughts and agonizing contradictions characters suffer [...]
"In this original and provocative combination of science and fiction, Joram Piatigorsky brings to life evidence of Dr. Johnson’s observation that Truth can be made more accessible when draped in the robes of fiction."
–Warren Poland, MD, Psychoanalyst, author, Melting the Darkness
