Part-academic analysis, part-memoir, and all illuminating: an extended look at the tales that have affected our lives. Full of personal stories and the written records of her doctors, we find that our systematized prejudices are more pervasive than we imagine.
Itinerant grittiness to poem after poem, revealing speakers tormented by false theologies, swindling opportunistic politics, and violent despair. It’s beat poetry made anew.
Vonnegut’s sardonic charm and open-handed critical wit are turned all the way up in this brief collection of short essays and observations, personal curiosities and writing advice. Worth the stay!
“Okay. Well, I’m just gonna say that your popular media inspired me to a new level of decadence. I mean, I’m like a Darkseid MMA version of the WWE. You know the word ‘turpitude?’”
Wharton’s hotter take on Ethan Frome is also far more nuanced, with a resolution worthy of much debate.
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