“History arcs toward the production of shit, and civilisation is a contest about who has to eat it.”
I enjoyed Ben Eastham’s funny and quotable novel The Floating World, which hovers between now-read-on and stop-and-look, and echoes Adolfo Bioy Casares and Félix Fénéon:
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Need a job? Come and build my doomsday bunker
A grieving writer gets a gig on an apocalypse-prepping billionaire’s island in Ben Eastham’s witty, wandering novel, The Floating World
