Savage Recreation

<p>Ian Bloom wrote <em>Savage Recreation</em> at age 24 in summer residence at the Bowery Hotel New York-financed by a phantom movie director. A surreal odyssey through appearances realities excess and deception. Somewhere in between Bloom was cast in the Warners Brothers film <em>The Nice Guys</em> to smoke cigarettes opposite Ryan Gosling-who supposedly grew concerned Bloom might steal the scene. Ever the gentleman Bloom graciously napped letting the stuntman take the moment courtesy of directorial permissions.</p><p></p><p>His second novel Savage Recreation evokes the brutality of Dostoyevsky's <em>Notes from the Underground</em> laced with William Burroughs' <em>Naked Lunch</em> and slivers of Ernest Hemingway's <em>For Whom The Bell Tolls</em>. A hallucinatory plunge into corporate dystopia pharmaceutical mind-control and the mechanization of desire Bloom wrote this while reading Thomas Pynchon's <em>Gravity's Rainbow-</em>but only up to the casino.</p>