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100 1  Riker, Martin,|d1973-|eauthor. 
245 14 The guest lecture :|ba novel /|cMartin Riker 
250    First edition 
264  1 New York :|bBlack Cat,|c[2023] 
300    241 pages ;|c21 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
520    "With "a voice as clear, sincere, and wry as any I've read
       in current American fiction" (Joshua Cohen), Martin 
       Riker's poignant and startlingly original novel asks how 
       to foster a brave mind in anxious times, following a newly
       jobless academic rehearsing a speech on John Maynard 
       Keynes for a surprising audience. 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 alarm 
       through the rooms of her own consciousness, Abby 
       repeatedly finds herself straying from her prepared 
       remarks on economic history, utopia, and Keynes's 
       pragmatic optimism. A lapsed optimist herself, she has 
       been struggling under the burden of supporting a family in
       an increasingly hostile America after being denied tenure 
       at the university where she teaches. Confronting her own 
       future at a time of global darkness, Abby undertakes a 
       hero's quest through her memories to ideas hidden in the 
       corners of her mind-a piecemeal intellectual history from 
       Cicero to Lewis Carroll to Queen Latifah-as she asks what 
       a better world would look like if we told our stories with
       more honest and more hopeful imaginations"--|cProvided by 
       publisher 
600 10 Keynes, John Maynard,|d1883-1946|vFiction. 
650  0 Women economists|vFiction. 
650  0 College teachers|vFiction. 
650  0 Consciousness|vFiction. 
650  0 Memory|vFiction. 
650  0 Self-actualization (Psychology)|vFiction. 
650  0 Speeches, addresses, etc.|vFiction. 
655  7 Humorous fiction.|2lcgft