David Lynch 1946–2025

17 January 2025

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”