Ten Past Noon: Focus and Fate at Forty

In the Roaring Twenties Edward Cumming might have become a railroad businessman but he was more interested in literature. During the Depression he tried to write a book about historical castrations. At thirty-nine he died by suicide.What went wrong for him? A lack of focus? A problem of fate? The number forty? Or was his book haunted?In this train ride of an American biography Tucker Lieberman tells the story of the would-be scholar of eunuchs. It is an essay about war racism gender time mortality free will money argument information architecture and why a writer might not finish a book.A hypno-saga...experimental tender angry freighted.