Hank Stuever’s new book, Tinsel, documents three consecutive
Christmases in the upper-middle-class Texas town of Frisco, including
a woman who decorates McMansions for $150 an hour, a man whose
overly decorated home is a YouTube sensation, and other ghastly holiday
monstrosities. But maybe, Stuever convincingly argues, all this
commercial excess is “more historically appropriate” than a pious,
Christian Christmas. Stuever’s clear-eyed examination of America in
holiday orgy–mode is energetic, acerbic, and informative.
(Elliott Bay Book Company, 101 S Main St, 624-6600. 7 pm,
free.)
Hank Stuever
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Let’s not talk about Hank’s book. Let’s talk about his dreamy EYES.