Funny as hell, searingly honest, and urgently real, Sam Pink's Rontel puts to shame most modern fiction. His … - Joe Meno

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I think the central mission in Afghanistan right now is to protect the people, certainly, and that would be inclusive of everybody, and that in a, in an insurgency and a counterinsurgency, that's really the center of gravity.

Joe Meno

Funny as hell, searingly honest, and urgently real, Sam Pink's Rontel puts to shame most modern fiction. His writing perfectly captures the bizarre parade that is Chicago, with all its gloriously odd and wonderful people. This book possesses both the nerve of Nelson Algren and the existential comedy of Albert Camus.

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Our worlds are so momentary. We are along all our lives and then go off that way as well.

Lives, Our World, Way, Wells, Worlds

And it's exactly what's wrong with the radio. It's like. . . anything that tries to appeal to everybody always ends up sounding so cheap.

Ends, Exactly, Like, Radio, Trying

After school the very next day, El Rey's mobile home was gone. I laid in bed and wondered what happens to people when they go, if they become like shadows, if they fade away when they disappear from your life. The only thing I could see was the broken picket fence. The only sound I could hear was the cry of birds being killed in the night.

Home, Life, Mobile, Night, School

I always feel super uncomfortable when it's like ah, there probably has to be a sex scene. I feel really bad and then always look around to see if anyone is watching me while I'm writing. I want to apologize to people who have to read those sex scenes, but I feel like it's part of the characters life, it's important.

Apologize, Character, Like, Read, Sex, Writing

Above the dirt of an unmarked grave and beneath the shadow of the abandoned refinery, the children would play their own made up games: Wild West Accountants! in which they would calculate the loss of a shipment of gold stolen from an imaginary stagecoach, or Recently Divorced Scientists! in which they would build a super-collider out of garbage to try and win back their recently lost loves.

Children, Gold, Grave, Loss, Love, Scientists