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More Curious (2014)

by Sean Wilsey(Favorite Author)

3.59 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

1940450179 (ISBN13: 9781940450179)

languge

English

genre

Nonfiction

publisher

McSweeney's

review 1: (Thank you, @Vromans bookstore for the recommendation.)Boy, but @SeanWilsey can WRITE and in this collection of some of his published articles, you get some of his best. Whether he's taking you to the art installation paradise/moonscape of Marfa, NASA, a road trip in the nation's slowest truck or jaywalking with the business restauranteur in Manhattan, the writing is punchy, fun and crafty, in the best way. My highest praise? I loved his articles about soccer and skateboarding, and I both subjects usually bore me senseless. At one point, speaking of a raconteur/con artist Wilsey has been unwittingly trapped with, he muses "I started suspecting I would have to write about all this. And there's no surer impediment to a good time than knowing you'll have to write about it."Pe... morerhaps. But knowing Wilsey was going to write about it promises the rest of us a very good time.
review 2: I was largely agape and riveted with Wilsey's first autobiography OH THE GLORY OF IT ALL[delighted to hear he is working on another one] and I had high hopes for this, which is an exploration into post 9.11 America. It is well-crafted writingand Wilsey has a long attention span and plenty of time to run with topics with minute detail and humor such as NASA, watches, the World Cup, and Marfa, Texas (which I now understand after reading this, that artist Donald Judd went there, etc. and where Wilsey lives). Many of these ran in McSweeney's, book review magazines etc. if you like that kind of magazine writing. less

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