David Lynch 1946–2025
In
brief
We’re very sad to hear of the death of David Lynch, one of the true greats of cinema and a brilliant visual artist, whose memoir, Room to Dream we were lucky and honoured to publish.
Nothing Lynch ever produced was boring or conventional, and Room to Dream is no exception: it moves between chapters by Kristine McKenna – that capture the detail and chronology of Lynch’s life, based on interviews and extensive research – and chapters by Lynch, in which he responds with memories and stories. The end product is as fascinating and compelling as Lynch’s films: as the introduction to the book says, it is “basically a person having a conversation with his own biography.”
(And the print book and audiobook are different as a result: when the time came to narrate his sections of the audiobook Lynch was clearly inclined to other stories and memories.)
Lynch made unapologetically personal art in a form that – because of the money involved – seems almost antithetical to that kind of uncompromising individuality. We’re lucky to have had him.
This is how Lynch ends Room to Dream:
“MAY EVERYONE BE HAPPY
MAY EVERYONE BE FREE OF DISEASE
MAY AUSPICIOUSNESS BE SEEN EVERYWHERE
MAY SUFFERING BELONG TO NO ONE
PEACE”
David Lynch
David Lynch advanced to the front ranks of international cinema in 1977 with the release of his first film, the startlingly original Eraserhead. Since then, Lynch has been nominated for three Best Director Academy Awards, for The Elephant Man, Blue Velvet and Mulholland Drive, awarded the Palme
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