![]() ![]() Less Is Lost is a follow-up to 2017’s funny, poignant, Pulitzer Prize winner Less. In Less Is Lost, Arthur sets off in a camper van (name: Rosina) across the American Southwest and Deep South, accompanied by a curmudgeonly science-fiction writer and a pug. It was the kind of thing, I thought, that might happen to the novel’s protagonist, Arthur Less. And when we got on the phone earlier this month to discuss his new novel, Less Is Lost (out September 20), it felt appropriate for this saga to quickly come up in conversation. ![]() ![]() In the end, he made it to the wedding-a lengthy Uber ride later. How could such a thing happen? Perhaps, Greer suspected, other holiday travelers were having too much fun on vacation and hadn’t returned their vehicles yet? (“Who cares! Travel disasters can be wonderful!” he recently wrote in an Instagram post, describing an entirely unrelated snafu.) It was Labor Day weekend, and the writer Andrew Sean Greer had just arrived in Bangor, Maine, en route to a wedding-only to learn that the rental car he had booked to drive to the venue was nowhere to be found. ![]()
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