PART MUCKRAKER, PART ADVENTURER, AND PART RACONTEUR, FRAZIER BEHOLDS, CAPTURES, AND OCCASIONALLY REIMAGINES THE SPIRIT OF THE AMERICAN EXPERIENCE. HOGS WILD OFFERS US AN UTTERLY UNIQUE BRAND OF INQUIRY WITHOUT AN AGENDA, CURIOSITY WITHOUT CALCULATION.
"A master of both distilled insight and utter nonsense" (The Believer), Ian Frazier is one of contemporary America's most gifted chroniclers. While travelling down south to examine feral hogs, he learns that their presence in a county is a strong indication it votes Republican. He introduces us to a man who, when his house is hit by a supposed meteorite, hopes to transform the errant object into an opportunity for his family, and follows a New York City detective fascinated with rap-music-related crimes. Alongside delighting in the absurdities of contemporary life, the collection further exposes our social reality: pieces on soup kitchens, opioid overdose deaths in Staten Island, and the rise of homelessness in New York City under Mayor Michael Bloomberg.
To read Frazier is to become a kind of social and political anthropologist-astute and deeply engaged-with humor never too far behind.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
1. By the Road
2. Hungry Minds
3. The One That Got Away
4. Word
5. Desert Hideaway
6. Dearly Disconnected
7. Bus Ride
8. Back to the Harbor
9. A Lonesome Death Remembered
10. Form and Fungus
11. The Unsettling Legacy of General Shrapnel
12. Hogs Wild
13. On Impact
14. Any Drop to Drink
15. Fish Out of Water
16. Passengers
17. The Rap
18. The March of the Strandbeests
19. The Toll: Sandy and the Future
20. Hidden City
21. The Antidote
22. The Cabaret Beat
23. Blue Bloods
