Yves here. The book profiled in this review, The Hospital, is flawed due to the author telling the story through a central character who then gets himself ejected from leadership by mismanaging a sexual harassment allegations against a staffer. However, many of its observations will still sound familiar to readers, such as medical industry workers who try to put patient care first are hopelessly caught up in a grift machine.
By Jaime R. Herndon, a medical and parenting writer who also writes about popular culture in her spare time. Her work has appeared in New York Family magazine, Book Riot, Fiction Advocate, Today’s Parent, Motherly, Healthline, and Health Union, among other publications. She is currently working on an essay collection. Originally published at Undark
A New Book from NER’s Nonfiction Editor
We are thrilled to announce the release today of a new book
The Counterforce by
From the publisher:
Inherent Vice. Each chapter of
The Counterforce is arranged after something Pynchon stands against: Los Angeles, Celebrity, Real Estate, Smiling, Reality, Sobriety, Sanity, Werewolves, etc.
“J.M. Tyree’s
The Counterforce, unlike so much literary scholarship, is brilliant and hilarious and stamped with style on every page. This wonderful book is a skeleton key for unlocking both Pynchon’s novels and our own fictional futures.” Jim Gavin, Creator/Executive Producer, AMC’s
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The Counterforce, J. M. Tyree is the coauthor of