BOOK REVIEW
Random rants, fake trivia to explain a crazy world
Opening a John Hodgman book has little to do with searching for a narrative, characters, or any stray pieces of conventional literary genre. “That Is All,’’ the third of Hodgman’s “tri-pendium’’ of knowledge books (the first two, “The Areas of My Expertise’’ and “More Information Than You Require’’ were equally jocular) reads more like an intricately constructed Jenga tower of instructions for understanding the collapsing world that exists only in Hodgman’s hyperactive imagination
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