So Far Gone

by Jess Walter

familiar feeling of grim hopelessness washed over Kinnick, the sense that, just when he thought it couldn’t get worse, it not only got worse, but exponentially more insane. Some days, reading the news felt like being on a plane piloted by a lunatic, hurdling toward the ground.

The classic failed poet meets failed musician failed love story.

All cruelty springs from weakness. Seneca said that, along with: Ignorance is the cause of fear.