"John Domini has brilliantly turned one of literary fiction's neatest
tricks: he has vividly and accurately evoked a past time and milieu--the
alternative cultural scene of the mid- 70s--and in the process he has
illuminated our own times with dazzling clarity. Talking Heads: 77
also manages to be both cutting-edge innovative and splendidly readable.
This book is a flat-out delight."
--Robert Olen Butler, author of A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain,
Pulitzer Prize in Fiction 1993
"Talking Heads: 77 reminds us of a generation's crushing loss of
idealism. Through an impassioned post-Watergate journalist whose
interior angst is articulated in illusory news columns for a fantasized
issue of his alternative newspaper, John Domini captures the kind of
innocence it once took to believe in our quixotic convictions, to
believe we could invoke change, to believe we couldn't be perverted or
corrupted. Simultaneously he recreates the visceral disillusionment that
had engulfed many of us by the time the 70's were over."
--Cris Mazza, author of Girl Beside Him and Is It Sexual Harassment
Yet?
"John Domini is fiction's own Greil Marcus, revealing the secret history
that has made us all; in Talking Heads: 77, Kit Viddich is our tour
guide, a reporter raking the muck to find the ore, and exploring the
cellars, by starlight. The cellars, the basement, the closet, the
underground--John Domini knows that the dank oubliettes of our world are
the places of darkness and death, and also the wellsprings, the very
life of our culture."
--Brian Bouldrey author of Love, the Magician, The Genius of Desire
and the essay collection Monster: Adventures in American Machismo
