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Not So Fast

Gentrification on the block, a showman in the white house, ethics gone. This is the 1980s.

Publication date: 23 January, 2020
Status: Published
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Description

Mark starts out in suburban New Jersey, where housing developments and shopping malls provide cover for medical scams, divorces and abortions. He moves on to film-biz-saturated Los Angeles, harboring Afghan freedom fighters and damaged survivors of Hollywood’s entertainment-making machine. Back east in rapidly gentrifying New York City, he falls in with art snobs, literary luminaries and real estate operators, all making the most of trickle-down economics.

Law school and extreme anxiety are on the horizon, followed by a foray into France and encounters with Eastern religion, an early wave of terrorism and the burgeoning right wing movement that is its corollary.

Everyone is looking for anything but what they already have. Mark is no exception.

About the Author

Mark Kamine

Mark Kamine has written for the Times Literary Supplement, Wall Street Journal, Believer and the New York Times Book Review. The River in the Living Room, a chapbook of his stories illustrated by James Pyman, was published in an artist/writer series that included books by Rachel Kushner, Lynne Tillman and Christopher Sorrentino. He works in the film business, where he has been an executive producer on Brad’s StatusBad Moms, and God’s Pocket, and a co-producer on American HustleSilver Linings Playbook and Ted.

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