Impossible Vacation by Spalding Gray My rating: 4 of 5 stars Okay, Impossible Vacation doesn't really work as a novel. It reads like one of Gray's monologues. And if you've heard Monster in a Box or Sex and Death at Age 14, then the protagonist, Brewster North, his mother, and his journey, will be familiar … Continue reading And Don’t Forget to Pack Your Neuroses
Month: March 2017
Friends don’t let Friends Bowl Alone
Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community by Robert D. Putnam My rating: 4 of 5 stars According to Robert Putnam's book, Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community, the communal working class suburb is an anomaly in a nation increasingly governed by the old Groucho Mark joke, "I don't want … Continue reading Friends don’t let Friends Bowl Alone