Night Thoughts

Night Thoughts is a collection of essays by Wallace Shawn. I listened to Shawn read his essays and it's hard not to think of his character from the Princess Bride. Shawn is also well-known as a playwright but I have never seen any of his plays. Ryan is a big fan and he found these essays.

I love anything that challenges the dominant capitalist / neoliberal narrative that seems to cause enormous suffering for many, many people on this planet. Shawn apparently identifies as a socialist and that makes sense. In one of the essays, he imagines the housekeeper of a wealthy friend smashing his friend's head into a marble dinner table until the friend is dead. 

Interesting stuff.