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03136aam a22003855a 4500 001 41C82150940511EE938C1F5A49ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20231206010040 006 m o d 007 cr cn||||||||| 008 230125s2023 xxu es 000 1 eng d 020 $a 0802160425 020 $a 9780802160423 028 42 $a MWT15684603 040 $a Midwest $e rda $d SILO 082 00 $a 813/.6 $2 23 100 1 $a Riker, Martin, $d 1973- $e author. 245 14 $a The guest lecture : $b a novel $h [electronic resource] / $c Martin Riker. 264 1 $a [United States] : $b Grove Atlantic, $c 2023. 300 $a 1 online resource 506 $a Digital content provided by hoopla. 520 $a With "a voice as clear, sincere, and wry as any I've read in current American fiction" (Joshua Cohen), Martin Riker's poignant and startlingly original novel asks how to foster a brave mind in anxious times, following a newly jobless academic rehearsing a speech on John Maynard Keynes for a surprising audienceIn a hotel room in the middle of the night, Abby, a young feminist economist, lies awake next to her sleeping husband and daughter. Anxious that she is grossly underprepared for a talk she is presenting tomorrow on optimism and John Maynard Keynes, she has resolved to practice by using an ancient rhetorical method of assigning parts of her speech to different rooms in her house and has brought along a comforting albeit imaginary companion to keep her on track-Keynes himself.Yet as she wanders with increasing alarm through the rooms of her own consciousness, Abby finds herself straying from her prepared remarks on economic history, utopia, and Keynes's pragmatic optimism. A lapsed optimist herself, she has been struggling under the burden of supporting a family in an increasingly hostile America after being denied tenure at the university where she teaches. Confronting her own future at a time of global darkness, Abby undertakes a quest through her memories to ideas hidden in the corners of her mind-a piecemeal intellectual history from Cicero to Lewis Carroll to Queen Latifah-as she asks what a better world would look like if we told our stories with more honest and more hopeful imaginations.With warm intellect, playful curiosity, and an infectious voice, Martin Riker acutely animates the novel of ideas with a beating heart and turns one woman's midnight crisis into the performance of a lifetime. 538 $a Mode of access: World Wide Web. 600 10 $a Keynes, John Maynard, $d 1883-1946 $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Women economists $v Fiction. 650 0 $a College teachers $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Self-actualization (Psychology) $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Speeches, addresses, etc. $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Electronic books. 710 2 $a hoopla digital. 856 40 $u https://www.hoopladigital.com/title/15683830?utm_source=MARC $z Instantly available on hoopla. 856 42 $z Cover image $u https://d2snwnmzyr8jue.cloudfront.net/csp_9780802160423_180.jpeg 941 $a 1 952 $l GFPE771 $d 20231206012237.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=41C82150940511EE938C1F5A49ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search