Editors' Picks: What We're Reading This Month

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Right now I'm in the middle of re-reading Richard Farina's Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me. The novel is based on Farina's own college experience in the late 1950's told through the eyes of the deeply flawed but endearing Gnossos Pappadopoulis as he deals with the changing political atmosphere of the beginnings of the counterculture and preparing to leave the protection of college. The novel is as Thomas

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Photo by: Penguin Classics

Right now I'm in the middle of re-reading Richard Farina's Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me. The novel is based on Farina's own college experience in the late 1950's told through the eyes of the deeply flawed but endearing Gnossos Pappadopoulis as he deals with the changing political atmosphere of the beginnings of the counterculture and preparing to leave the protection of college. The novel is as Thomas Pynchon writes in the introduction, "hilarious, chilling, sexy, profound, maniacal, beautiful, and outrageous all at the same time."'
-Erica Boorstein, Intern

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