“Exorcist” author William Peter Blatty has a new book out. Titled “Finding Peter,” it’s part comic memoir, part argument for life after death. Blatty, a lifelong Catholic, lays out a number of curious incidents — electric lights mysteriously flickering on and off, etc. — that have convinced him that his son Peter, who died of a rare heart disorder in 2006 at the age of 19, has been communicating with him from beyond the grave.
Blatty, who calls his book a “labor of love” meant for readers who have lost a loved one, plans to donate the book’s royalties to a scholarship fund in his son’s name at Peter’s old high school, the Heights School, in Potomac, Md . We chatted with the 87-year-old Bethesda, Md. author by phone, touching on the literary life, life after death and movies.
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