Book review: Martin Riker's 'The Guest Lecture' is an insomniac's vigil with John Maynard Keynes
"The Guest Lecture" by Martin Riker If you're ever spent a sleepless night worrying about your career, your family and the gross inequality of American life, then chances are you will love, or at least relate to,"The Guest Lecture" by Martin Riker. Riker, whose last novel was a modern-day ghost story about a man whose soul migrates from body to body in search of the son he left behind, has written a quirky second novel of breathtaking genius.
Abby decides to practice by using an ancient memorization technique sometimes called a"memory palace." Specifically, she assigns parts of the lecture to different rooms in her house so that later she can"walk" through those familiar spaces in her mind and remember the talk. What first attracted her to Keynes, who famously advocated for deficit spending during economic downturns, was his"pragmatic optimism," centered on the belief that governments could and should play a benevolent role in citizens' lives.
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