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"A professional of both distilled understanding and utter nonsense" (The Believer), Ian Frazier is one of the most gifted chroniclers of contemporary America. Hogs Outdoors assembles a decade's worth of his finest essays and reportage and shows the irrepressible passions and artful digressions that distinguish his long lasting body of work. Part muckraker, part adventurer, and part raconteur, Frazier beholds, captures, and once in a while reimagines the soul of the American experience. He vacations down South to examine feral hogs and learns that their occurrence in any state is a solid indicator that it votes Republican. He presents us to a man who, when his house is struck by a expected meteorite, dreams to "leverage" the area object into opportunity for his family, and a New York City police detective who is captivated by rap-music-related offences. Alongside Frazier's take pleasure in the absurdities of contemporary life is his sense of public responsibility: There's an echo of the fantastic reform-minded freelance writers in his parts on a soup kitchen, opioid overdose deaths on Staten Island, and the climb in homelessness in New York City under Mayor Bloomberg. In each dizzying discovery, Hogs Outdoors unearths the joys of inquiry without agenda, curiosity without computation. To hear Frazier is to become a kind of public and political anthropologist - astute and deeply involved.
