The Talking Cure

(Hardback)

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Well-known driven radio story-teller Mike Feder describes his apprenticeship into the trade of compulsive talker from being forced into telling his agoraphobic, mad mother stories of the world outside her closed blinds. His rediculous subsequent jobs, his failed marriage, his string of psychiatrists and the misery of his reluctant fatherhood all contribute to his book's uneasy balancing act between hilariousness and deep seriousness, conventionality and strangeness. Deeply funny and breathtakingly dark, it somehow reassures the reader that God loves a challenge.

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"I appreciate how he invites his readers to laugh at his sufferings - like Woody Allen." - QUENTIN CRISP "Mike Feder just talks without apparent design, making you laugh...and then you realise he has a poet's master plan." - Gene Wilder "One hears echoes of Woody Allen and Philip Roth, with a touch of Mark Twain holding it all together." - The Pittsburgh Press

Author Bio

Mike Feder grew up in New York City. He has worked as a social worker, parole officer, welfare agent, clerk in a crooked employment agency, radio station manager, used bookstore owner, screenwriter (collaborating with Gene Wilder), and landlord. His writing has appeared in many publications including Harper's. His previous book was the critically acclaimed New York Son.