Conquistador of the Useless
A Fiction book. Organizing the books was a fun afternoon. We decided to put the thick hardback...
Joshua Isard’s debut novel is a hoot. Our hero Nathan Wavelsky moves into the burbs with his wife. Life is good. He’s a successful slacker. He doesn’t want to rock the boat. His definition of a good time is listening to his favorite bands on his iPod and staring at the grass and the poplar trees in his backyard. As a mid-level corporate manager, he does what his bosses tell him. If they want somebody fired, he fires them. No questions asked. But the boat does start to rock. He innocently gives a copy of Kurt Vonnegut’s Cat’s Cradle to a teenage girl and his neighbors are righteously appalled. His wife’s hormones start to tango and now she wants a baby. Sure, he enjoys sex, but that doesn’t mean he wants a...
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Organizing the books was a fun afternoon. We decided to put the thick hardback books, mostly intro. to philosophy textbooks and Norton literature anthologies, on the top shelves where they looked good but stayed out of reach since there's no reason for opening them ever again. Then we went by genre: mysteries, cozies, modernists, mountains, sci-fi, beloved childhood volumes, books we bought abroad, books required in school we couldn't sell back, books bought for us we'll read soon, books bought for us we have no intention of reading, books we want to... The stupa is a white dome with a conical stone tower emerging from its center. There are two eyes painted on the tower, the all seeing eyes of Buddha. They're purple, and look a little sinister, like an Old Testament Buddha. Joshua Isard, Conquistador of the Useless
The plot took a strange turn to Nepal and an even stranger one after that. So. I was perusing the aisles at BEA13 and was inexplicably drawn into a small-ish booth, where Conquistador of the Useless was sitting on top of a pile. I'm wary of novels that promise big things, particularly when they invoke Vonnegut and Salinger, which the back copy of this book does. In fact, the copy promises a "grunge generation... New review! CONQUISTADOR OF THE USELESS http://tinyurl.com/zvguurl Joshua Isard writes the essential Millennial novel. Cinco Puntos Press designed and made this an excellent book...should be selling like hotcakes! Discover a new writer and an excellent read.It's over at my blog for a week or two. Please read, tweet, Facebook, everything...
