Selected Blackouts
Goldbach, John
In the stories that make up "Selected Blackouts", characters struggle with questions of faith, diet, sex, addiction, mortality, while often on the verge of -- or in the midst of -- cracking up: A cooking show host, for example, breaks down after a guest on his show refuses to eat barbecued pork spare ribs ("Emperor 'Q"), a young man starts to unravel, while drinking with friends at Christmastime, believing that they all know embarrassing secre...
