A question of what matters: hyperrealism and the literature of detachment….

Complete detachment or complete engagement - as Billy Joel observed, it all depends upon your appetite.... I am still making my way, rather too leisurely probably, through Walker Percy's marvelous novel The Last Gentleman (about which I will have much to say, since I corresponded with Mr. Percy while completing my first book, a novel, The…

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