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Season 1 Episode 5 "Message in a Bottle"

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At least 15 people were killed and 24 others injured after a migrant speedboat collided with the Greek Coast Guard patrol vessel late Tuesday, off the eastern Aegean island of Chios. https://www.thestatesignal.com/migrant-speedboat-collision-with-greek-coast-guard-vessel-kills-15/

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#CockpitCamera shows what it’s like to flip a speedboat at 200MPH: https://zorz.it/kBPIS

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Renata Adler's 1976 novel "Speedboat" enjoys a cult following amongst MFA types.

I'm not an MFA type myself, but I thought I should give it a try.

If you're looking for a gripping story, this is not the book for you. It's virtually plotless, being composed of a series of episodes, observations, and micronarratives in the life of a young NYC based journalist. Certain characters recur, but the chronology is left unclear.

One does get a feel for New York in the seventies as experienced by a fairly privileged young white woman -- Elaine's, rats, vagrants in the apartment house vestibule, no show faculty at the state university,....At times, I found myself laughing at scenes from parties and metropolitan encounters.

I wonder if this would be good novel to study if one wanted to broaden one's understanding of the meaning of literary postmodernism. "Speedboat" exemplifies a formal experimentation distinctive from that of the modernist novel of the the first half of the twentieth century but which is also free of the metafictionality and self reference that often are taken as definitive of the postmodern.

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