The Buzzing

The BuzzingBy: Jim Knipfel Series: Vintage Contemporaries Meet Roscoe Baragoncrack reporter at a major (well, maybe not that major) metropolitan newspaper. Baragon covers what is affectionately called the Kook Beatwhere the loonies call and tell him in meticulously deranged detail what its like to live in their bizarre and lonely world. Lately Baragons been writing stories about voodoo curses and alien abductions; about fungus riddled satellites falling to earth

ruthless bullying from her classmates

her newest client struggles with her own dark secrets

An army of Red Skulls threatens to overwhelm them

All this and an umlaut too

and its containing multitudes

the chain-smoking romantic

But Lyra at twenty is very different from Lyra at thirteen

• “How do I read the wine list without breaking out a dictionary

and must now live in an attic room while some of the most tumultuous decades in Russian history are unfolding outside the hotel’s doors

it’s the talk of the pub

as legal expert Amy Gajda argues

and a scary T