The Ingram Interview

"As a rule I have a tendency to be in favor of moderation- except when it comes to temperature. Sixty degrees, like it is today, is roughly speaking the climatic equivalent of the middle way. It's bland-like modesty. It's probably my least favorite temperature. It's neither stimulating nor stupefying. It's blah-like chicken broth." The Ingram Interview, K.B. Dixon's unrepentantly quirky new novel, weavesits way interrogatively through the life of Daniel Ingram, a retired, none-toohealthy English professor who has been kicked out of an assisted-care facility because he was depressing other residents. Moving in temporarily with a former student of his-a young art-film maker named Michael Berger-Daniel works fitfully on a ramshackle memoir as he continues to pursue a reconciliation with his absent ex-wife.