Professor Richard Doyle of Penn State University joins Reality Sandwich for our inaugural ReRead series. Rather than the text-base style reread we were doing, Richard suggested that VALIS is arguably a transmedia experience. Leaping off the page as it were. So he offers us this “vlog” style recording, which I personally feel works magically for our subject matter — and I’m considering doing the rest of the ReRead in podcast format.

Professor Doyle requested that he cover chapter 11 of VALIS, but as you’ll see, his personal exegesis of Dick’s “hallucinatory fiction” illuminates far beyond the pages of the book.

Richard wrote the afterward for “The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick,” and is the author of “Darwin’s Pharmacy.” He writes regularly on his blog as “Mobius,” and has recently taught an online class with SynchCast entitled “Radio Free VALIS.” ReRead participants are highly encouraged to check out the class after our re-read for further PKDickean immersion and reality distortion.

New to the reread? You can ride along here or start at the beginning: Reality Sandwich ReReads. You want to get in deep with The Exegesis? Check out Zebrapedia.

Related Links For this Vlog:

Richard’s Blog

For intrigued scholars and academic’s, Richard’s profile at Penn State: http://english.la.psu.edu/faculty-staff/rmd12

Also be sure to check out Richard’s excellent TEDx Talk on P.K.D, the Exegesis and ‘Hacking the Hero’s Journey.’