I read Flight to Canada by Ishmael Reed

A vivid satire of American history where fugitive slaves trying to figure out where they might actually be "free" at the end of the Civil War coexist in time with TV News, poetry MFA programs and swanky cars. Super thick with historical and anachronistic references, and yet the effect is intuitive and cohesive, in part because the prose is just so rapid-fire weird and self-confident but also these things all kind of exist on top of each other in real life as well, right? The long tail of slavery as an institution hasn't been addressed; racism, the property regime, and the whims of cloistered elites still enclose what life is possible for many people. Despite the subject matter, it was really fun and zippy to read, and made me envious... I don't think I approach writing in such a free, surreal and funny way. I wish I could!