Between Panic and Desire (American Lives)

Between Panic and Desire (American Lives)
by Dinty W. Moore

Between Panic and Desire (American Lives)
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Author: Dinty W. Moore
Edition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2008-03-01
ISBN: 080321149X
Number of pages: 161
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press

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Book Review: Quirky, interesting, experimental memoir
Summary: 4 Stars

I don't share a great deal in common with Dinty Moore. I didn't grow up watching TV or obsessed with Richard Nixon, I haven't done drugs, I haven't been searching for a father figure, and I don't have a name that causes people to ask "is that your real name?" for example. But I enjoyed this short and readable book.

Moore uses creative chapters (quizzes, lists, imaginary conversations and interviews - using real quotes, etc.) to think about the role of perception and memory in our lives. It is an interesting stew - sorry, had to do it - of pop culture, sociology, psychology, commentary, criticism, and memoir.

If you have ever wondered what creative non-fiction meant, Moore - who teaches it - offers a good example in his latest book.

Summary of Between Panic and Desire (American Lives)

?Insouciant? and ?irreverent? are the sort of words that come up in reviews of Dinty W. Moore?s books?and, invariably, ?hilarious.? Between Panic and Desire, named after two towns in Pennsylvania, finds Moore at the top of his astutely funny form. A book that could be named after one of its chapters, ?A Post-Nixon, Post-panic, Post-modern, Post-mortem,? this collection is an unconventional memoir of one man and his culture, which also happens to be our own.
 
Blending narrative and quizzes, memory and numerology, and imagined interviews and conversations with dead presidents on TV, the book dizzily documents the disorienting experience of growing up in a postmodern world. Here we see how the major events in the author?s early life?the Kennedy assassination, Nixon?s resignation, watching Father Knows Best, and dropping acid atop the World Trade Center, to name a few?shaped the way he sees events both global and personal today. More to the point, we see how these events shaped, and possibly even distorted, today?s world for all of us who spent our formative years in the ?50s, ?60s, and ?70s. A curious meditation on family and bereavement, longing and fear, self-loathing and desire, Between Panic and Desire unfolds in kaleidoscopic forms?a coroner?s report, a TV movie script, a Zen koan?aptly reflecting the emergence of a fractured virtual America.
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