A young Brooklyn poet and novelist, newly signed to a lucrative book deal and diagnosed with a dilated aorta, drifts through a New York bracing for a hurricane while he agrees to father a child for his best friend. A meditative, autofictional novel about time, art, mortality and literary fraud.
Books mentioned in 10:04 (8)
Theses on the Philosophy of History by Walter Benjamin: ““The storm irresistibly propels him into the future to which his back is turned.” —Walter Benjamin (epigraph to a part)”
Specimen Days by Walt Whitman: “I would sit at my desk and read Specimen Days, his bizarre memoir, for hours.”
Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman: “Or the two first editions on the market of Leaves of Grass.”
America by Walt Whitman: “the one extant recording of Whitman, made by Edison: he recites four lines from ‘America’”
Midsummer by William Bronk: “Narrator opens Bronk's selected poems and the poem “MIDSUMMER” is quoted in full”
The Door by Robert Creeley: “I played him reading ‘The Door’ in the early sixties”
High Flight by John Gillespie Magee Jr.: “they were taken from a poem by John Gillespie Magee entitled ‘High Flight’”
Correspondances by Charles Baudelaire: “And of course we have Baudelaire’s sense of ‘Correspondances.’”