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Matt Snediker
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This book, even moreso than HARLEM SHUFFLE, feels, in the best way possible, like your most charismatic, most off-holiday distant, most Stella Artois-appreciating of uncles unspooling a ream of family story negatives.
— Aug 10, 2026 12:20PM
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Matt Snediker
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There is a character in this book, a singer named Roscoe Pope, who had a hit record on the radio called “Memo from Dr. Goodpussy”.
So things are going well.
— Aug 24, 2026 08:31AM
So things are going well.
Matt Snediker
is on page 139 of 337
The way Whitehead uses “they did a deal for”, across both books, in reference to furniture sales, jewelry fencing, rough-up jobs, missing person investigations, and murders, with the same deadpan tone, with the same matter-of-factness, daring you to have a problem with it, daring you to call him out on it, is just totally emblematic of what makes these books so good.
He’s a god of subtext.
— Aug 17, 2026 05:38PM
He’s a god of subtext.
Matt Snediker
is on page 103 of 337
Chester Himes type beat on the first section
— Aug 10, 2026 08:47PM