David Given Schwarm

This is an amazing book from a UCI faculty member. Really strong prose poem all the way through the text.

I liked Graphic Novel Romance (V for Vendetta):

After the brains of fingerman, V drops his baton and tells Evey he means her no harm. Who are you? she asks. What I am is a man in a mask. Later, she wakes up in his cave,. Stan Getz plays. V hums along, makes her hole-in-bread for breakfast. In the theater, I lean over to my friend. This is how I got married. I was taken, I like to say. It wasn’t a cave. But “The Girl from Ipanema” played. Coffee was made. Books were everywhere and in alphabetical order. He split cantaloupe so I didn’t have to use a knife. And I said who are you? He answered: I’ve forgotten more than you’ve ever known. With the film still running, my friend reminds me this is comic book stuff.

A very fun quick read that I really enjoyed. I am going to try to find more of Atkinson’s stuff.