It’s 1973 and Mona Glass is a 24-year-old amateur tennis star in a long-running affair with Saul Plotz, her former college professor. Her parents like Saul and desperately want the free-spirited Mona to marry. But 34-year-old Saul already has a wife and two children. One day, Saul happens on an idea: stage a fake wedding for the benefit of her old world parents, invite a few friends in on the joke, and go about their lives.| www.headhousebooks.com
This isn’t an attack on John Pistelli, whose work in general I respect. But the topic of white male novelists and representation in literature is so tiresome, so played out, past its prime, I’d gladly guide it into a suicide pod. But until then, I suppose it gives me yet another chance to rehearse a few points. Art has been declared dead; that means it’s both marginal and ubiquitous to the point of vapidity. High end literature, specifically, isn’t worth much on the market, and doesn...| Substack
