Tom Lynch

"Goodbye, Goodness" is the rock `n' roll "Great Gatsby." The American dream, slaughtered during the indie-rock nineties by an author who lived it. It's of no question that Hayward Theiss, Brumbaugh's anti-hero--trapped in a Malibu beach house and dealing with the plights of musician friends, doper friends, record producers and car wrecks--is, in human form, the onslaught of regret. Add to that his dissection of the life of his great-grandfather, a great criminal robber, and the notorious Annie Oakley (who Brumbaugh actually descends from), and "Goodbye, Goodness" takes an ambitious trip in just over 200 pages. Brumbaugh's a new voice--witty, smart, jaded and fresh, and his book brings together the hopeful and the lost, the reality and the dream, the humor found in desperation, and the other way around.

Sam Brumbaugh reads from "Goodbye, Goodness" on April 27 at Quimby's, 1854 West North Avenue, (773)342-0910, at 7pm. Free.

(2005-04-19)

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