Caught Up in the Drift

First published in 1992 by the avant-garde stalwarts Dalkey Archive Press, Going to Patchogue, a morbid, mordant, and at times malicious anti-novel written by Thomas McGonigle, has just been reissued as a paperback by Tough Poets Press. Oddly for such an experimental work, Going to Patchogue received generally positive notices 30-plus years ago from mainstream outlets such as the New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, Newsday, and the Los Angeles Times—surely an impossibility today for such a demanding novel.