The Buzzing (Magill’s Literary Annual 2004)
At a glance:
- Author: Jim Knipfel
- First Published: 2003
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: 2003
- Setting: New York City
- Principal Characters: Roscoe Baragon, Emily Roschen, Eel, Ed Montgomery, Livingston Biddle, Natacia, Antonio Dunham
- Genres: Long fiction, Science fiction, Novel
- Subjects: New York, United States or Americans, Journalism or journalists, Space flight or travel, Twenty-first century, Mental illness, Drinking or drunkenness, Popular culture, Films, movies, or motion pictures, Earthquakes, Monsters, Paranoia, Space sciences
- Locales: New York, NY
The Buzzing is columnist and memoirist Jim Knipfel’s first novel. A longtime writer of a column titled Slackjaw for The New York Press, Knipfel wrote two highly personal books, memoirs about going blind (1999’s Slackjaw) and his time in a psychiatric ward (2000’s Quitting the Nairobi Trio), that in some ways lay the groundwork for the main themes of The Buzzing. Painted in broad strokes, The Buzzing is a purposefully ambiguous, satirical novel about the press, urban society and the people who fall through its cracks, conspiracy...
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