Wakefield

After a long period when lit kept giving us Faustian protagonists whose inner demons always had the best of them, this time, the contemporary world succeeds in overwhelming the Devil himself. I thoroughly enjoyed the wit, the irony and the burlesque.......more

If the snobbish male gaze were a book, this would be it.......more

Wakefield is absurdist, dark humor written by award-winning poet and playwright Andre Codrescu. Thank you to Net Galley and to Open Road Integrated Media for permitting me to access a DRC. The title, originally published in 2004, will be available for purchase digitally September 8. Wakefield is an a......more

The devil and Wakefield make a deal, but it is all good and comedic and about general dropping knowledge. Codrescu once said that Wakefield is his most autobiographical, or was that Messiah? It was written in a collection of his essays, which is numerous still. Humph. Anyway. Ex-wife, Marianna, women......more

The novel Wakefield by Andre Codrescu is, among other things, an enticing look at the US’s upper register around 2004. The book is full of trenchant observations, but before looking at them, let me begin with a digression. If a reader surveys Codrescu’s novels, that reader can trace an interesting,......more