Adventure

Christopher Schaberg is Dorothy Harrell Brown Distinguished Professor of English at Loyola University, New Orleans, USA. He is the author of 7 books, including The Textual Life of Airports (2013), The Work of Literature in an Age of Post-Truth (2018), and Pedagogy of the Depressed (2022). He is series co-editor (with Ian Bogost) of Bloomsbury's Object Lessons series.

• Part 1. A Little Adventure Everywhere Part 2. Nowhere Else: Adventures in and out of New OrleansPart 3. Final Frontiers: Misadventures in SpacePart 4. The Ends of AdventureConclusionAcknowledgmentsBibliographyIndex

This is a moment at which terribly serious issues confront humans everywhere. But, unfortunately, the very idea of seriousness is one of the issues. Most of all, we need a sense that the future can be different from the past. We need a sense of adventure. How to stay flexible, that's the key. We get paralyzed with seriousness. Schaberg has been showing us how to be playful for quite some time. Adventure is a playful book that lets you walk through it one step at a time, written by a maestro of meaningfulness.