Ten Walks/Two Talks
Jon Cotner
"Magic... A new way of moving through our worlds." -The Boston Phoenix "TEN WALKS/TWO TALKS is not a destination; it's a gentle journey with a pair of companionable friends." -The Stranger "A clever, well-executed investigation of the poetics of the commonplace." -BOMB Magazine "Hilarious... Walkers, you have found your Socrateses." -The Austin Chronicle "I hate exercise, and I hate conversation, but I love TEN WALKS/TWO TALKS." -HTMLGiant "It's difficult to describe, even harder to explain how Cotner and Fitch's reverence for the small miracles of life in a city is so remarkable, so comforting and revelatory and, in spite of the authors' humility, profound. I've noticed more since I read it. I've listened more. It's made me feel better. But all that is hard to explain, and I don't know if I even can or will be able to anytime soon, so I'll just say that this is a gift, a beautiful book, and nothing in it is forgettable." -Michael Schaub, Bookslut [Five-Star Review] "Fantastic... A deceptively simple book, TEN WALKS/TWO TALKS demands little but offers much. Cotner and Fitch invite us to experience our city with fresh pleasure and renewed awe." -Justin Taylor, Time Out New York
"Cotner and Fitch's conversations zigzag between the philosophic and the comedic." -Paper Magazine
"TEN WALKS/TWO TALKS is an associative journey where scents, noises, people, and buildings are meticulously described through the eyes of intensely attentive explorers." -The Architect's Newspaper
Literary Nonfiction. TEN WALKS/TWO TALKS combines a series of sixty-minute, sixty-sentence walks around Manhattan with a pair of roving dialogues --one of which takes place during a late-night "philosophical" ramble through Central Park. Mapping 21st-century New York, Cotner and Fitch update the meandering and meditative form of Basho's travel diaries to construct a descriptive/dialogic fugue. (edited by author)
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