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In Praise of Ted Mooney, Part 4: The Same River Twice
“A lot of times things were really normal, as if you were in a movie.” Easy Travel to Other Planets “What is it people in America say, Paul, when they feel their lives are. . . lifted out of the … Continue reading
There Really was an Amorous Dolphin Peter: More on Easy Travel to Other Planets
I feel like I didn’t do my homework before I wrote In Praise of Ted Mooney, Part 1: Easy Travel to Other Planets. In his Acknowledgments, Mooney mentions that the explanation of sonar that Melissa, the novel’s dolphin researcher, provides, … Continue reading
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Tagged Easy Travel to Other Planets, John Lilly, Margaret Howe, Ted Mooney
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In Praise of Ted Mooney, Part 3: Traffic and Laughter
You’re well into Ted Mooney’s second novel, Traffic and Laughter (1988), before you realize that its world, which feels so familiar, isn’t ours. The time is the mid 1980s; the post-WWII babies are in their 30s. But only now has … Continue reading
In Praise of Ted Mooney, Part 2: A World Like Our Own, But Not Quite
In my previous post, I mentioned a few of the ways in which the world depicted in Ted Mooney’s Easy Travel to Other Planets differs from ours. One of these, a new illness called “information sickness,” has captured more critical … Continue reading
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Tagged Easy Travel to Other Planets, Ted Mooney, Traffic and Laughter
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In Praise of Ted Mooney, Part 1: Easy Travel to Other Planets
This summer Knopf published Ted Mooney’s fourth novel, The Same River Twice. It’s the best novel I’ve read this year, and it sent me back for another look at his three previous works: Singing Into the Piano (1998), Traffic and … Continue reading
