I Was Never Cool

A spiritual heir of Richard Bratigan, John Fante, and Bukowski, Joe Musso writes in a refreshing, minimalist, understated, sardonic style. Playful with language, with insights into love, sex, and the paradoxes of life, this second book by Musso is a well-crafted daisy chain of vignettes, each one of a kind of poem about a moment in time, the whole a poignant exploration of human relationships, and loneliness in a seriocomic vein.