I read this on the plane. it was fantastic. it is a series of microstories, several pages long a piece. I think it does better than anything ive ever read at probing the nature of our current unrealityhttps://smile.amazon.com/dp/0735217939/
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he touches the object level maybe two or three times and his lens is apolitical or broader than political. not what is happening but who we are becoming because of what the world is becoming each story is a facet of this. mostly ambiguous. he is the last 20C writer
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the overall effect is not the formation of an opinion but at least an opportunity for the reader to reprocess what has become. to feel it vicariously and anew through bizarre first person anecdotes that explain nothing but leaving one with the sense that something has condensed
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this is a fantastic and much more detailed review he actually managed to get Klosterman on the phone and im glad to hear this in his words https://twitter.com/OtisGHouston/status/1401759400285511680?s=19 …pic.twitter.com/q3tenpc2af
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one more thing. seeing things being picked at like this by a prominent author of Serious Literature is really encouraging.
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Sounds perfect. Ordered
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