Zombification: Stories from National Public Radio by Andrei CodrescuMy rating: 2 of 5 stars
I never really dug Condrescu's NPR bits, but thought maybe his ESL pronunciation was biasing my judgement, so gave this collection a chance - read them in my own voice, as it were. I am still "meh" about the material: it seems like incomplete thoughts lacking punch - all texture without structure and feeling like a draft of a possibly better essay. Still, there were highpoints. I did not know he lived in Louisiana, or at least did during this dated Reagan Era compendium, and I like most his ruminations on that nearest faraway place of this diverse nation. His insights into Roumania are, of course, enlightening. Well traveled he touches on my own Detroit home city with a humble recollection of the 1967 Detroit riot and the persecuted artist Tyree Guyton.
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