Theater
May, 1975
At the outset of Tennessee Williams' new novel, Moise and the World of Reason (Simon & Schuster), the narrator, a 30ish Southern homosexual living in New York City's West Village, informs us that he is a "distinguished failed writer," with a taste for incomplete sentences, dangling participles and general incoherence. Not exactly a grabber of an opening, but we force ourselves to continue. Several incomplete, dangling and generally incoherent pages later, the narrator introduces us to...
