Between Panic & Desire

'Insouciant' & 'irreverent' are the sort of words that come up in reviews of Dinty W. Moore's books--and, invariably, 'hilarious.' This book, named after two towns in Pennsylvania, finds Moore at the top of his astutely funny form. Abook that could be named after one of its chapters, 'A Post-Nixon, Post-panic, Post-modern, Post-mortem,' this collection is an unconventional memoir of one man & his culture, which also happens to be our own. Blending narrative & quizzes, memory & numerology, & imagined interviews & conservations with dead presidents on TV, the book dizzily documents the disorienting experience of growing up in a postmodern world.