by John Hawkes
I am an uncontrolled variable.The text, in this case The Beetle Leg, is the independent variable. My reaction, or yours, or anyone else’s would be the dependent variable.With this experimental novel, one might (I was) tempted to say that the experiment failed, but experiments don’t fail—they produce...
I read a chunk of this and had no idea why... lots of descriptions about boots and tables or something... But what bothered me most is that this is an Ivy League professor trying to sound like he's a dirt cowboy in Montana -- just as, in the Lime Twig (which worked better, I thought), he was trying ...