Disparates

15 Bytes Book Award 2021 Independent Publisher Book Awards, Gold Medal Winner In English disparate  means “different” or “miscellaneous”—apt descriptors of these essays by Patrick Madden. In Spanish, however, disparate  means “nonsense,” “folly,” or “absurdity,”—words appropriate to Madden’s goal of undercutting any notion that essays must be serious business. Thus, in this collection, the essays are frivolous and lively, aiming to make readers laugh while they think about such abstrac