All Things Are Too Small: Essays in Praise of Excess BOTY_2025 Book two in a trio

Book two in a trio of novellas bound by place and mood—with elegant line art by Júlia Sardà—The Hotel Balzaar masterfully juggles yearning and belief

“Do you remember the hospital

the results are always outstanding

Readers will also experience the many relationships Fallon developed as he balanced the contradictory demands of a boisterous American family constructing a memorial for their deceased daughter and Evangelical missionaries more interested in saving souls than filling bellies

a prayer uttered in the grayish morning light

All Things Are Too Small: Essays in Praise of Excess BOTY_2025 Book two in a trioA glorious call to throw off restraint and balance in favor of excess, abandon, and disproportion, in essays ranging from such topics as mindfulness, decluttering, David Cronenberg, and consent. In her debut essay collection, brilliant and stylish (The Washington Post) critic Becca Rothfeld takes on one of the most sacred cows of our time: the demand that we apply the virtues of equality and democracy to culture and aesthetics. The result is a culture