I see by the snailpapers that Carl Hoffman has a new book out about "the malodorous undercarriage of travel" called THE LUNATIC EXPRESS.....
Yes, and "The Lunatic Express" is coming into a station near you very very soon!
The Lunatic Express was pubbed (that's booktalk for "published") on March 16 and there was a book party Washington DC on March 20. Later, on April 17, be there or be square, there will be a book signing at Politics and Prose on Connecticut Avenue. Will Ben Bradlee stop on by? Stay tuned.
Says one unabashed fan, and all fans should be unabashed, for sure:
"Throw away the luscious tour brochures and dive into the malodorous undercarriage of travel. This not transformation; this is transportation in all its glorious bastardy.
Carl Hoffman has reinvented the travel log as the supreme theater of paradox. At its most successful his travels are a search for an unholy grail -- something freakish, something dangerous, something authentic.
Hoffman is a romantic and an adventurer who adheres to the great Cartesian principle: 'What we perceive clearly and distinctly is true.' Like Sam Beckett he explores the corrosive loneliness of being alive, and the courage it takes to continue, no matter the fallowness of the landscape; no matter the heavy sweat of movement; no matter the eructable smells; no matter the clanky haulage.
Hoffman is a great explainer. But his explanations are not reductive. He regroups both the unfamiliar and what we think we know about the world and makes the eye fresh. He stands for what is articulate, independent, exploratory and for humanity as a work in progress.
Forget the inoculations, disregard protection, take this ride and find the way to interconnectedness. Verity and understanding."
Oh, that was Richard Bangs, Producer, Host of the Public Television series "Adventures With Purpose."
hat tip to the Wall St Journal 03/15/2010 Planes, Trains And Miseries
The Lunatic Express was pubbed (that's booktalk for "published") on March 16 and there was a book party Washington DC on March 20. Later, on April 17, be there or be square, there will be a book signing at Politics and Prose on Connecticut Avenue. Will Ben Bradlee stop on by? Stay tuned.
Says one unabashed fan, and all fans should be unabashed, for sure:
Carl Hoffman has reinvented the travel log as the supreme theater of paradox. At its most successful his travels are a search for an unholy grail -- something freakish, something dangerous, something authentic.
Hoffman is a romantic and an adventurer who adheres to the great Cartesian principle: 'What we perceive clearly and distinctly is true.' Like Sam Beckett he explores the corrosive loneliness of being alive, and the courage it takes to continue, no matter the fallowness of the landscape; no matter the heavy sweat of movement; no matter the eructable smells; no matter the clanky haulage.
Hoffman is a great explainer. But his explanations are not reductive. He regroups both the unfamiliar and what we think we know about the world and makes the eye fresh. He stands for what is articulate, independent, exploratory and for humanity as a work in progress.
Forget the inoculations, disregard protection, take this ride and find the way to interconnectedness. Verity and understanding."
Oh, that was Richard Bangs, Producer, Host of the Public Television series "Adventures With Purpose."
hat tip to the Wall St Journal 03/15/2010 Planes, Trains And Miseries
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