Insomnia plagues nearly 15 percent of adults. Blake Butler exists among this anguished set of sleep-deprived humans, battling a lifelong issue that he explores in this 2011 memoir. The heralded Atlanta-based writer juxtaposes his personal recount with a history of sleep that is marked by facts and studies, all while reflecting on the dementia that currently grips his father’s mind. This manic, long-form essay of sorts echoes the headlong style of the late David Foster Wallace, to whom the book is dedicated. “What those words inside me could have said, I wonder—where or what I would have gone or been...
- 7/3/2012
- Pastemagazine.com
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