I learned so much in such a short time that it’s piqued my interest in the subject. In one chapter he just starts writing random facts about Native American culture, historically, and I couldn’t get enough of it.
Parts of this book go into great detail about Native Americans, and it is fascinating. He tells the story of the Great Plains the only way you can without being boring: He skips all over the place from topic to topic, state to state in no particular order. He camps at campsites, or sometimes along lonesome roads in the middle of nowhere (he has a mattress in his van) as he traverses 6,000 miles. In Great Plains, Frazier drives his van through what was once labeled “Great Desert” on maps. (I think I found both of them remaindered at a mall B.How does an author write an interesting book about a region of the United States that stretches from Texas to Canada, Colorado to Missouri? Ian Frazier knows how. I think I discovered him on the silly side, with his classic collections Dating Your Mom and Coyote V. Luckily for me, I like the work of both Fraziers.
The silly side, and is not as strongly identified with the New Yorker to begin with.) Is somewhat similar, but he's spent the vast majority of his career on Throw-these-two-odd-facts-together-at-high-speed humor pieces. Known best for: serious, boots-on-the-ground reportage full of checked facts and Ian Frazier is a long-time New Yorker writer, and one of theįew who straddles the line between the two kinds of writing they're Years Prematurely Declared to Be Over (3).Travel Broadens The Mind Until You Can't Get Your Head Out the Door (94).The First Thing We Do Let's Kill All the Lawyers (6).Tedious Minutiae of a Boring Life (350).
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