"Insouciant" and "irreverent" are the sort of words that come up in
reviews of Dinty W. Moore's books-and, invariably, "hilarious."
Between Panic and Desire, named after two towns in Pennsylvania,
finds Moore at the top of his astutely funny form. A book that
could be named after one of its chapters, "A Post-Nixon,
Post-panic, Post-modern, Post-mortem," this collection is an
unconventional memoir of one man and his culture, which also
happens to be our own. Blending narrative and quizzes, memory and
numerology, and imagined interviews and conversations with dead
presidents on TV, the book dizzily documents the disorienting
experience of growing up in a postmodern world. Here we see how the
major events in the author's early life-the Kennedy assassination,
Nixon's resignation, watching Father Knows Best, and dropping acid
atop the World Trade Center, to name a few-shaped the way he sees
events both global and personal today. More to the point, we see
how these events shaped, and possibly even distorted, today's world
for all of us who spent our formative years in the '50s, '60s, and
'70s. A curious meditation on family and bereavement, longing and
fear, self-loathing and desire, Between Panic and Desire unfolds in
kaleidoscopic forms-a coroner's report, a TV movie script, a Zen
koan-aptly reflecting the emergence of a fractured virtual America.
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