Books: “Less” by Andrew Sean Greer (review from 2019)

What is it about reading a book or watching a flick on a plane? Obviously, you’re a captive audience: you can’t open the emergency hatch and ride a Bike. (Nor should you.) The key to a good read is focus: away from social media distractions (guilty!) and bad TV programs on the seat back you don’t want to watch anyway. And focus I did on a novel G recommended that probably 3/4 of you have already read or audio-listened to by now.

“Less,” by Andrew Sean Greer, is the tale of a 50-year-old gay writer who accepts invites to half-baked literary conferences around the world; in Berlin, Turin, Morocco, and Japan, among them. His descriptions of these adventures are alternately hilarious, familiar, sad, imaginative, unique, and humbling.

If you have not read this “bestseller embraced by readers everywhere,” as the shill on the back cover writes, kindly join the crowd. Tell Amazon Augster sent you. That is all. Talk to you on the ground. (Thursday)

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