Mean Thoughts

Mark Glassman looks for enlightenment in bars, night clubs, and coffee shops, but he gets more than he bargains for when he finds it: the residual wisdom of the street.

Despite the fact that he is beset by contemporary problems -including a paralyzing fear of sex - Glassman manages to hold himself together until he meets Teresa Devlin. But Devlin proves to be too much for him in more ways than one.

Mean Thoughts was a semi-finalist for the 2002 Peter Taylor Prize for the Novel, a national competition sponsored by the University of Tennessee Press.