Short-a-Day: Keith Ridgway's "Goo Book"
Originally published in The New Yorker, April 11, 2011. Personal enjoyment rating (out of 100): 52.Not the good book, mind you, that much is clear from the opening line -- "It was fucking hot" -- and the first section's introduction to our anti-hero, the sort of man who "slid through [tourists] like Jesus through children" and "came out the other side with a box purse and what his fingers had thought was a wall…