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03025aam a22004578i 4500 001 5001E844A2C711ED850ED7DB26ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20230202010041 008 220826s2023 nyu 000 1 eng 010 $a 2022038635 020 $a 0802160417 020 $a 9780802160416 040 $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a PS3618.I532 $b G84 2023 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 / $c Martin Riker. 250 $a First edition. 263 $a 2301. 264 1 $a New York : $b Black Cat, $c [2023] 300 $a 241 pages ; $c 21 cm. 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 audience. In 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 repeatedly 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 hero's 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"-- $c Provided by publisher. 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. 655 7 $a Humorous fiction. $2 lcgft. 655 7 $a Fiction. $2 lcgft. 941 $a 9 952 $l VXPE964 $d 20230823010733.0 952 $l TCPG826 $d 20230706010420.0 952 $l FYPI314 $d 20230602011135.0 952 $l CQPE926 $d 20230516010534.0 952 $l TDPH826 $d 20230302010721.0 952 $l GDPF771 $d 20230221011422.0 952 $l GMPD771 $d 20230210025230.0 952 $l CDPF771 $d 20230202011211.0 952 $l CAPH522 $d 20230202010308.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=5001E844A2C711ED850ED7DB26ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search