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just before the 2020 election further propels us into a new realm of reality.
If youre looking to the old guard for innovation, youre in for a disappointing reading season.
Its set on Superbowl Sunday, 2022 the Titans versus the Seahawks.
Rectangles, triangles, squares.
The power goes out.
Flames … Wing on fire to a medical clinic and then through the city to their friends.
Diane paces behind him, postulating about what particular breed of villain is behind the electrical failure.
One character drones, From the one blank screen in this apartment to the situation that surrounds us.
Who is doing this to us?
Have our minds been digitally remastered?
This is not the first time these questions have been asked.
Scientists have said things, written things, physicists, philosophers.
The street where we live, the building we work in, the socks we are wearing.
A rain of asteroids.
The sky thick with them.
Asteroids that become meteorites as they approach a planet.
Entire exoplanets blown away.
This is a murky soup of fears, a subReddit for undereducated conspiracy theorists come to life.
And from there, nothing much happens.
He created an entire vocabulary for how Americans worry.
But here, the metaphors are like wrecking balls.
Interspersed are some of his writing tips, if anyone came for that.
Does all this sound familiar?
It ought to, because much ofInside Storyis regurgitated from Amiss other work, especially his memoirExperience.
He admits as much: If youve read my novels, you already know absolutely everything about me.
So this book is just another installment, and detail is often welcome …
The modern masters of painting?
Lucian Freud, Francis Bacon, David Hockney, Patrick Procktor.
He briefly engages on Virginia Woolf to call her second-rate.
Muriel Spark is the very deftest of writers, but can quickly exhaust your powers of retention.
Its a convenient method for never owning up to using the same tired, misogynistic tropes.
Of course, every novelist has their preoccupations.
If I want rakish Amis Ill skip back toLondon Fields.
If I want wisely pontificating DeLillo, theresUnderworld.
