Title: What's Important Is Feeling Who wrote it: Adam Wilson, author of Flatscreen and 2012 winner of the Terry Southern Prize. Plot in a box: A series of shorts—mostly involving young Jewish men living on the east coast who do drugs, pine over women, and experience failure in both life an...
This was a decent read. I really liked the unique descriptions Adam Wilson uses throughout the book, as well as, the bullet point lists. What I didn't like was the blurb on the front cover toting how 'hilarious' this book was because I'm not sure it's meant to be a comedy, per say. A comedy of error...
Funny, smart, and sad all at the same time. It's a book about suburbia and what it'd actually mean to stay here and live an unexamined life. Drugs, sex, music, and mostly a whole lot of boredom - that's Eli's life. Even after he lands a surrogate father figure, he can't quite rouse himself out of...