Wow, that’s a reflective cover…
Anyway, back in 2017, I bought a whole bunch of stuff from Landfill Editions — I’d been really impressed by some stuff they’d published, like Mould Map 3. So I didn’t know anything about this book, and I ended up not reading it at the time. But no time like the present.
It’s kinda interesting — the schtick is that we’re listening to a late night radio show — you know the kind; a guy is telling us a long story and playing some songs in between. You’d sometimes stumble onto those in the 80s/90s at studentey radio stations and the like.
Hasler tells a familiar story about growing up and stuff, and parts are engrossing, but then again there’s a lot of faffing about. So even if this is a short book, it feels like it could have done with a bit of editing down, really.
But I kinda liked it anyway. It’s got a mood going.
And this is one of those super rare books that doesn’t seem to have a Goodreads page! *gasp* It cannot be!
The Gob (2017) by Samuel Hasler