Add it to List: John Bowes New Book "US:Americans Talk About Love"
This may be how I spend my weekend (after the Nouvelle Vague concert tonight, of course). After reading the New York Times profile of
John Bowe today, I'm sold. A romantic at heart, I'm moving this collection of 44 stories about Americans in love to the top of my list, sorry
Game Change.
Since its release on January 5th,
US: Americans Talk About Love, has come to much critical acclaim. Champion rom-com writer, Judd Apatow calls it, "Funny, brutally honest, quirky, devastatingly painful, and hopeful all
at the same time. Every story is a small movie I wish someone would
make."
The Los Angeles Times Magazine touts the book as a "...profound, touching work of social anthropology."
I hope the book is as compelling as it's author, a bachelor in his 40's
seeking to understand why he can't seem to make love work for him. Well
groomed, with an eye for vintage art and a taste for food and culture,
Bowe seems like a catch. Only just now feeling ready to settle down,
he reflects:
"I think it's a very arrogant gamble I made in a way," he said, "I'll
have time to set up a career that fulfills my spiritual goals and then
have time for a relationship afterwards. If I'm right, then I'm the
coolest guy in the world. If I'm wrong, I'm a loser. The goal was always to avoid being that surly alcoholic guy who didn't
live up to his dreams and blamed the wife and kids for that," he added.
"So, you make your calculations, you roll the dice and you hope you're
right that there's time after you make it to then join the human race
and have a normal emotional life."
Stay tuned for my review!
P.S. This sounds like a great Valentine's Day gift.
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