The Muse and the Mechanism: Love, sex, drugs, death, life, comedy, dreams, pop culture, racism, class, religion, 9/11, crime, failure, and epiphany, but not necessarily in that order. Old tongues blend with new actions as the modern hipsinisters vie to create a new language of the literary lost. At the Center is Charlie Fell, a twenty-something who can't make up his mind on his medium, his lovers, and his position in life.