The Drinking Game

The Drinking Game, published in the form of a set of instructions for an impossible-to-win game available online (www.thedrinkinggame.net) and as the author's traveling interactive performance piece, galvanizes the reader with the promise of illumination: here you will finally learn how to win. But the instructions themselves morph into stories and meld with the other short stories in the collection and everywhere one turns, the book plays its own game. The stories themselves are about games in form and content, elevating the concept from the silliness of Beer Pong to game as war--in the tradition of Robert Coover's A Night At The Movies. The Drinking Game starts off as a conceptual piece based in low culture, taking the reader through a series of haunting stories dealing with 9/11, female Chechen suicide bombers, and the game of life in a world which is, like the game itself, a landscape of foreignness.