amounts to a convincing case that will resonate with progressives seeking to 'free ourselves from the world that we were born into' and 'change the way we live.' Scholars of Buddhism will benefit from White’s shrewd takes." Boyle, Dana Spiotta, Amy Bloom, Aimee Bender, Roxane Gay, and many others.Ĭurtis White's Transcendent: Art and Dharma in a Time of Collapse is an smart and timely exploration of the West's fascination with Buddhism. Previous contributors include Jesmyn Ward, Lauren Groff, Bret Easton Ellis, Celeste Ng, T.C. Curtis White brilliantly depicts the family unit transformed into rage and reruns.In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book. These hours in front of the idiot box illuminate the tragic truth of the stuff that many father/son relationships are made of: silence but for media mentoring. All of it is consumed in front of the TV, of course.
In his here's-what-it-means-to-be-a-man role, Dad eats the cheapest no-name brand of liverwurst, Vienna sausages right out of the can, uncooked Spam, and Cheez Whiz-aerosol-sprayed straight from the container. In the text, however, the scene of his pursuit appears to be real. Instead of being punished by his own feelings of guilt for his neglect of his family, Dad is figuratively punished by imagining that the cast of Combat is pursuing him. I think there was something hypnotic in the Kennedy funeral procession.") ("My father has been in a cataleptic trance before the TV since November of 1963. It is a capricious god that provokes and shapes the family members and their relationships with each other, particularly the relationship (or lack thereof) between father and son. In this darkly funny novel about family in the 1950s and '60s, television serves as both stage and star.
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