Part memoir and part history of insomnia, this surprising and exciting book reads emphatically like neither. Blake Butler's trademark prose coheres thPart memoir and part history of insomnia, this surprising and exciting book reads emphatically like neither. Blake Butler's trademark prose coheres the parts into a different being altogether, pulling from the Critical Theorists he obviously reveres (Deleuze especially, but also Sartre, Levinas, Nancy and too many others to list) to make his own memories synecdochal of America's. Sentences stretch out, often over pages, filled with original constructions and myriad pop culture references. Sometimes a book as jumbled as this can make one wish the editor had been less indulgent. But in this case it mostly comes off; the originality is always clear - though the intent, at times, less so. ...more
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