Lucas Thompson is a Senior Lecturer in English & Writing at the University of Sydney, Australia. His work explores the intersection of literature and philosophy, focusing on the rich aesthetic experiences and forms of knowledge that fiction affords. He is the author of Global Wallace: David Foster Wallace and World Literature (Bloomsbury, 2017) and Metaphors We Read By: Rethinking Literary Experience and Interpretation (Edinburgh UP, 2025).
Regarding Buechner, he writes:
I came to Frederick Buechner after chancing across a brief but enthusiastic mention of his work by Annie Dillard, and have since read almost everything he ever wrote. His novels strike me as some of the strangest but most compelling fiction written in the twentieth-century, and his essays, sermons, memoirs, poems, and meditations on other writers are similarly wonderful, full of unexpected delights. I adore Buechner's nimble and lively prose, as well as his rich insights on language, faith, and art.
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