Review: 'The Guest Lecture' by Martin Riker
It's midnight and you're in a hotel room with your family. Tomorrow you have to give a talk and you.are.not.prepared. The only option is to mind palace it and hope it doesn't derail. The Guest Lecture is a fascinating insight into academia and the stress of the mid-2010s. Thanks to Grove Atlantic and NetGalley for providing me with a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. My sincere apologies for the delay! Pub. Date : 24/1/2023 Publisher : Grove Atlantic In a hotel room in the middle of the night, Abby, a young feminist economist, lies awake next to her sleeping husband and daughter. Anxious that she is grossly underprepared for a talk she is presenting tomorrow on optimism and John Maynard Keynes, she has resolved to practice by using an ancient rhetorical method of assigning parts of her speech to different rooms in her house and has brought along a comforting albeit imaginary companion to keep her on track—Keynes himself. Yet as she wanders with increasing...
