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Are factoids about other peoples jobs interesting to you?
I hoard them like fine treasures.
Once, in central Oregon, I was chastised by a rancher for asking how many cows he owned.
First, he said, this was a rude question because I was basically asking him his net worth.
He went into finer detail, but we dont have room for it here.
It sits in a glass case between Phlebotomist Info, Plywood Trucking Info, and many others.
After a while my neck starts hurting.
I came for the vocation.
I stayed for everything else.
(Objectively an extremely cool job.)
Working at the court, as it turns out, requires immense dissociative abilities.
One day a deposed president on trial at the court specifically requests the narrators services.
(Awhy me?moment if there ever was one.)
(I will not spoil the answer.)
Kitamura writes the kind of minimalist prose that can feel skeletal if done poorly.
How did she make so much happen with so few words?
A better technician of prose could figure it out; Im happy to marinate in bewildered reverence.
The distance between my guesses and reality was always vast, and therefore hilarious.
Answer at the end of this blurb.
Once she saps the local libraries, she sneaks into university collections to excavate histories and journal articles.
This is both a page-turner and a raw but erudite expression of a totally unique consciousness.
(Wouldnt it be terrific if modern health insurance considered sea air reimbursable?
Weallknow it works, even if we cant prove it.)
But inthiscase, as the internet says: Shoot it into my veins.
All of this biographical tinsel has eclipsed her writing, but maybe we can change the course of history.
Tick all the boxes as you careen throughthe new Edward St. Aubyn novel?
A prose style so charming that it envelopes you likeA BLANKET OF RARE FIBERS?
Sharpen your claws on Lisa TaddeosWHETSTONEof aLos Angeles novel?
This tale ofan American family grappling with schizophreniawill have you on the edge of your towel.
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