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"Torday is a singular American writer with a big heart and a real love for the world. He has the rare gift for writing dynamic action scenes while being genuinely funny." -- George SaundersBluegrass musician, former journalist and editor, and now PhD in English, Mark Brumfeld has arrived at his thirties with significant debt and no steady prospects. His girlfriend Cassie -- a punk bassist in an all-female band, who fled her Midwestern childhood for a new identity -- finds work at a "new media" company. When Cassie refuses his marriage proposal, Mark leaves New York and returns to the basement of his childhood home in the Baltimore suburbs. Desperate and humiliated, Mark begins to post a series of online video monologues that critique Baby Boomers and their powerful hold on the job market.
About the Author
Daniel Torday is the author of the novel THE LAST FLIGHT OF POXL WEST. New York Times chief critic Michiko Kakutani said the book "announces Torday's emergence as a writer deserving of attention," and in a cover review, The New York Times Book Review called the novel, "Expertly crafted... full of lyrical prose, superb Rothian sentences that glide over the page as smoothly as a Spitfire across a cloudless sky ... utterly accomplished." Esquire Magazine called the book's ending "the 149 best words published this year." Torday's novella, THE SENSUALIST, won the 2012 National Jewish Book Award for debut fiction. His short stories and essays have appeared in Esquire, Tin House, Paris Review Daily and The Kenyon Review. He is the Director of Creative Writing at Bryn Mawr College.
