Implosion

by Ted Gogoll

Luigi’s a hard-drinking, iconoclastic New York City newspaperman, blacklisted for chasing an off-limits story and crossing the line with his editor’s wife at a company party, watching helplessly as his charmed life blows up beyond recognition. Broke and on the verge of eviction from his shoebox apartment, a once-in-a-century hurricane helps produce an epiphany that he should transition to writing fiction. Before long, he becomes a hardscrabble novelist, bouncing around the world, absorbing one disaster after another, as he authors novellas whose taboo subjects generate a fresh wave of misfortune. And that’s the problem for this modern-day No matter what the situation, he can’t resist the seduction of flying close enough to the sun until he burns to a crisp.

368 pages, Kindle Edition

Published May 22, 2022