Sense and Seussibility

The writer Ben Marcus told me once that the only books he could really follow as a child were Seuss because they did not make sense. Like zinks in your sink? Zlocks in your clocks and wosets in your closets? Then you will love Marcus's first novel The Age Of Wire And String, in which food is worn, weather rages underground, and "The Ben Marcus" is defined as a "false map scroll, caul or parchment."