“Book Descriptions: The complement to Neutral Evil ))), a short novel published in 2020 about seeing Sunn O))) in Philadelphia on March 18, 2017, Chaotic Good presents another polythematic core sample/associative cascade, this time about taking the train to NYC to see a band at “the world’s most famous arena” on December 28, 2019. Also involves a foundational synesthesiac experience, a cylindrical hotel deserving demolition, the renovated men’s bathroom in New York Penn Station, untangling headphone cords, cleaning house before moving out, logging the past versus planning the future, ADHD, autism, Alzheimer’s, preferring the documentary to the drama, waiting too long in car for spouse to return from hellacious megastore, walking with young daughter around where you grew up, the composed part followed by the improvised part, intentionally losing now to win later, remembering once in a while that the trick is to surrender to the flow.
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"Mostly just found myself highlighting and typing ha or lol or the little plus sign which of course means I dig this. Affable narration. Highly readable. Entertaining. Funny. Bejeweled with alluring idiosyncrasies. Unspools with characteristic effortlessness. I felt at home." -- Matthew Vollmer, author of All of Us Together in the End
On Neutral Evil ))): "A non-self-congratulatory, legitimately revelatory, and insightful work. I loved it. Read it in 1.5 sittings, and am hugely glad to have done so. May we all resist viruses of any sort!" -- Adam Levin, author of The Instructions, Hot Pink, Bubblegum, and Mount Chicago.” DRIVE