I came across a review of this book in the paper today and was intrigued by the randomness and the whimsy of it:
I came across a review of this book in the paper today and was intrigued by the randomness and the whimsy of it:
Conversations with George Bush.
A nod to Kierkegaard and Walker Percy: existentialist tomfoolery, political satire, literary homage, word mongering, a year-round summer reading club, Dylanesque music bits, apocalyptic marianism, poetry, fiction, meta-porn, a prisoner work-release program.
Søren Kierkegaard
Walker Percy
Bob Dylan
Literature & History
Letters from an American
Beau of the Fifth Column
This American Life
The Writer’s Almanac
San Diego Reader
The Stranger
The Inlander
Adoremus
Charlotte was Both
The Onion
From Empty Hands
Ellen Finnigan
America
Commonweal
First Things
National Review
The New Republic
All Manner of Thing
Gerasene Writers Conference
Scrutinies
DarwinCatholic
Catholic and Enjoying It
Bad Catholic
Universalis
Is My Phylactery Showing?
Quotidian Quintilian
En pocas palabras
William Wilson, Guitarist Extraordinaire
Signposts in a Strange Land
Ben Hatke
Daniel Mitsui
Dappled Things
The Fine Delight
Gene Luen Yang
Wiseblood Books
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It’s Mattia’s interventions, observations, amateur photos and choices of verbatim interview material (of which there are large chunks) that keep this from feeling like a gimmick or vanity project – it’s similar to a hint-and-miss independent documentary film, where the look and feel of the footage tells you as much as what is said. Personal anecdotes and political musings run the gamut, and Mattia allows all their say with equal measures of calm, quietly forging a poetics of what’s in a name.
Sharing a name with the leader of the free world has its up and downs.