Nothing Serious

Stoned out of his skullThis is how we find washed-up New York Magazine writer Digby Maxwell when he is offered his last chance to redeem himself by becoming editor of a small philosophy magazine headquartered in a rural Vermont college townDigbys assignment to make the philosophy magazine relevant to contemporary culture For starters that requires several more tokes Very deep tokesA wildly witty novel in the tradition of JP Donleavy and Nick Hornsby Nothing Serious takes serious pot shots at Manhattan pop culture and academic small-mindedness sexual obsessions and political correctness st century alienation and philosophers ranging from Aristotle to Sartre