Cultivating the Arts of Life in “The Guest Lecture” – Chicago Review of Books

Cultivating the Arts of Life in “The Guest Lecture” – Chicago Review of Books

[ad_1] When Martin Riker’s novel The Guest Lecture opens, its main character, Abby, is lying awake in a hotel bed, trying not to wake her husband and daughter, anxiously planning a lecture on the economist John Maynard Keynes that she’s scheduled to give the next day. When the novel ends, Abby is lying awake in … Read more