By Padgett Powell
“If Duchamp or even Magritte wrote a singular (and might be they did. Did they?) it may possibly glance whatever like this impressive little booklet of Padgett Powell’s.”
—Richard Ford
The Interrogative temper is a wildly artistic, jazzy meditation on existence and language by means of the novelist that Ian Frazier hails as “one of the simplest writers in the United States, and one of many funniest, too.” a singular composed fullyyt of questions, it's maybe the main audacious literary high-wire act seeing that Nicholson Baker’s The Mezzanine or David Foster Wallace’s tales; a playful and profound booklet that, as Jonathan Safran Foer says, “will sear the unfortunate volumes shelved on each side of it. the way it doesn’t, itself, combust in flames is a secret to me.”
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It was very quiet for just a moment, and then the two men, president and magician, began a discussion. As time was short, they couldn’t speak at length, but they did manage to speak in depth. Harding’s casket stood at the west end of the lobby of the Palace Hotel on Friday, August third. There was some embarrassment at first, as the only American flag anyone could find to drape over it was the one that had flown in front of the Palace since 1913, and weathering and soot made it a shabby tribute indeed.
Charles wondered if this odd appliance was related to sewing somehow. There were a half dozen attachments, which he quickly determined fit over the ball-shaped nose: cones, grids, planes with raised bumps. Then he found the brochure: VIBRATION IS LIFE What woman hasn’t lost her fair share of life to the mysterious ailments that incapacitate her zest and zeal? Feminine complaints can constrict the flow of the vital humors, leading to restlessness, furtive amativeness, a corruption of morals and the downfall of her happy home.
Oh. ” “Oh. ” Sullivan flipped his paper over. Because James never talked to strangers, Charles was unsure what he, the older brother, should do. For some reason, James started a story— about a friend of his who had his own bicycle—that had so many false starts that Sullivan finally put his newspaper down and stared, hard, at James. Charles wasn’t sure why, but he felt growing embarrassment for himself and his brother, as if they’d seen someone naked in the bath, and, even worse, they’d paid to do it.