My Year 2008: In the Gap

This is the seventh volume of Douglas Messerli's ongoing cultural memoirs.

Swinging forward once more, Messerli discusses a society, "In the Gap," a cold war term that defines the position of a spy trying to spot the other side's position without himself being detected. In essays featuring Harold Pinter, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Gertrude Stein, Harlem writer Richard Bruce Nugent, and the so-called conspiracy of modernist gay writers, artists, and musicians, as well as current events of a year, the author perceived us as being "between things."