So, yesterday was the official kick-off of the Keep Portland Weird festival here in Paris, which meant that I had a reading/screening in the...
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How to approach this book? Pour yourself a big glass, gulp it down and then, get out on the dance floor and do the Watusi.
These stories are a night at Carnival. All of your emotions will suit up and take a ride-from the hilarious "Adrift on The Gulf Stream" to the awe inspiring "Everest at The Bottom of The Sea". Bucky McMahon is your tour guide to the strange worlds where angels fear to tread. Prose like this, so smooth and tender and surprising, even laugh out loud funny, is harder to come by than a lucid phrase from the mouth of George Bush. You'll drift off to South America, Alaska, to Nicaragua, to the very moon.
You'll go to where great books are supposed to take you. Drink up.
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Night Diver by Bucky Mcmahon
operdoc, June 8, 2008
How to approach this book? Pour yourself a big glass, gulp it down and then, get out on the dance floor and do the Watusi.These stories are a night at Carnival. All of your emotions will suit up and take a ride-from the hilarious "Adrift on The Gulf Stream" to the awe inspiring "Everest at The Bottom of The Sea". Bucky McMahon is your tour guide to the strange worlds where angels fear to tread. Prose like this, so smooth and tender and surprising, even laugh out loud funny, is harder to come by than a lucid phrase from the mouth of George Bush. You'll drift off to South America, Alaska, to Nicaragua, to the very moon.
You'll go to where great books are supposed to take you. Drink up.