The Visible Man

TEXAS BOOK FESTIVAL 2011

• Power to the Pen

  Paging through the Texas Book Festival

  BY KIMBERLEY JONES

• Unschlocking the Undead

  Colson Whitehead's Zone One

  BY AUDRA SCHROEDER

• A Little Night Magic

  Erin Morgenstern's The Night Circus

  BY KIMBERLEY JONES

• PC Nation

  Juan Williams' Muzzled

  BY MICHAEL KING

• Juan Williams: Word for Word

  Author of Muzzled speaks up

  BY MICHAEL KING

• In His Words

  Rolando Hinojosa-Smith's A Voice of His Own

  BY ROBERTO ONTIVEROS

• Giving Up the Ghost

  Donna Johnson's Holy Ghost Girl

  BY SARAH SMITH

• New in Print: Texas Book Festival Authors

• The Stranger's Child

  BY SARAH SMITH

• The Visible Man

  BY AUDRA SCHROEDER

• When She Woke

  BY WAYNE ALAN BRENNER

• Unprecedented Power: Jesse Jones, Capitalism, and the Common Good

  BY JAMES RENOVITCH

• The Outlaw Album

  BY JAMES RENOVITCH

• The Beautiful and the Damned: A Portrait of the New India

  BY WAYNE ALAN BRENNER

The Visible Man

With his second novel, cultural sponge Klosterman switches to sci-fi, that bold frontier everyone seems to be indulging now. The premise: Austin therapist Victoria Vick recounts the story of patient Y__, who discovered a cloaking suit that makes him invisible. In his pop culture and sportswriting, Klosterman's rhetorical culs-de-sac make for dynamic reads, but here, references to The Wire and Duran Duran cause Y__'s monologues to lose emotional momentum. The most interesting scenes come when he's silently observing someone, revealing some wisp of human nature, but they're few and far between.

Lit Crawl: Saturday, Oct. 22, 8-8:45pm, Scoot Inn (1308 E. Fourth)