Savage Recreation

Ian Bloom wrote Savage Recreation at age 24 in summer residence at the Bowery Hotel, New York, financed by a phantom movie director, at which point, Bloom was then cast in the Warner Brothers film The Nice Guys to smoke cigarettes opposite Ryan Gosling, who supposedly became concerned Bloom would perhaps steal the scene, so Bloom, ever the gentleman, chose to nap and pass the scene to the stuntman, courtesy of directorial permissions.

His second novel, Savage Recreation evokes the existential brutality of Dostoyevsky's Notes from the Underground, laced with William Burroughs' Naked Lunch, and slivers of Ernest Hemingway's For Whom The Bell Tolls. Bloom wrote this while reading Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow, but only up to the casino.