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Read for March BOTM (Reading 1001) and my first Kotzwinkle. I did not realize that this author also wrote the farting dog novels and The Bear Went Over the Mountain and E.T. This is my first Kotzwinkle. In this humorous book we have a bit of fantasy, a bit of thriller, a bit of satire. The setting is a publishing company in NYC of various sleazy tabloids; Midnight Examiner, Real Detective, Macho Man, etc. Publishing is all about the headlines, those wild ones that catch your eye when your checki
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A wild ride through 1980s New York City on the coattails of a tabloid editor. Kotzwinkle's book reminds me of how much grimier NYC was in the 80s: porn theaters and winos populated Times Square and middle class people lived on Manhattan. Howard Halliday is our guide to this airbrushed-voodoo-taxicab-thrill ride. Buckle your seatbelts, Uqal Mussa is at the wheel!
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