Stoned out of his skull?this is how we find washed-up New York magazine writer Digby Maxwell when he is offered a last chance to redeem himself by becoming editor of a small philosophy magazine headquartered in a rural Vermont college town. Digby?s assignment is to make the magazine relevant to contemporary culture. For starters that requires several more tokes very deep tokes.
A wildly witty novel in the tradition of J. P. Donleavy and Nick Hornby Nothing Serious takes serious potshots at Manhattan pop culture and academic small-mindedness sexual obsessions and political correctness twenty-first century alienation and philosophers ranging from Aristotle to Sartre.
