Reading Codrescu's collections actually slowed my pace and gave me a different kind of peace for thinking. Generally I look to stimulation for thought from good stimulants like coffee or Coltrane. Instead, I lay, reclined on my sofa, with July heat of Chicago spilling between my linguine window...
This is a wide-ranging romp through modern America by a character, Wakefield, who has made a deal with the devil to begin living authentically, to find his 'true life'. Given that Wakefield is a self-help guru of sorts, cynically making up lectures to move audiences of tech CEOs and socialites, i...