TRAVELS IN A COMPLEX LAND.(IDEAS)

From: The News & Record (Piedmont Triad, NC) | Date: January 16, 2000 | Copyright information

AY, CUBA! A SOCIO-EROTIC JOURNEY

By Andrei Codrescu

St. Martin's Press

$25. 224 pages.

Whether it is his native Romania or the byways of America, traveling with essayist and cultural critic Andrei Codrescu can be a surreal experience. Employing a droll, but elegant style, he brings an innate optimism to subjects ranging from the merely marginalized to the profoundly weird.

Realizing this, National Public Radio's "All Things Considered" (for whom he is a periodic commentator) asked Codrescu and photographer David Graham to visit Cuba just prior to the ...

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