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Charlie Fell sells baseball cards with seemingly hallucinogenic properties out of his bedroom, takes road trips to places he loves (New York City) and loathes (Southern California), and trips over a series of romantic entanglements. When the young writer releases his first novel, his life begins to unravel as the fallout from his published inner-monologues drive him back inside his already frail mind.

The Muse and the Mechanism: Love, sex, drugs, death, life, comedy, dreams, pop culture, racism, class, religion, 9/11, crime, failure, and epiphany, but not necessarily in that order. Old tongues blend with new actions as the modern hipsinisters vie to create a new language of the literary lost. At the Center is Charlie Fell, a twenty-something who can't make up his mind on his medium, his lovers, and his position in life.