“Book Descriptions: The first of four volumes of an anthological novel conceived and largely written by Rick Harsch, that includes, generally seamlessly, the work of at least 70 other writers, who contributed chapters, sentences, jokes, drawings, and ideas. The novel is an examination of the nature of autobiographical fiction, the elusive nature of the muse, which is likely a sea creature of some sort similar to the cuttlefish, and a political thriller that dissects the influence of the Reagan years, post WWII fascism, and collusions of various hypocrisies, and foul, oft deadly behaviours on the part of representatives of chimeras of good on the pursuit of life on the globe, lots of it in Italy during what is known as the anni di piombo, with further examples primarily from Western Europe and the United States, making extensive use of history as it is known by historians, skinwrapping the actual in menippean satire and inventing the farcical mirroring in more conventionally menippean satire, hammering away ballpeenally at calcified ignorance toward the hollows within all that is encased.” DRIVE