"In these essays, Andrew Farkas boldly surveys waiting rooms, kitchens, malls, bars, theaters, roadside motel rooms, and other places that feature temperature control, protection from rampaging predators, and a higher degree of comfort than can be found outside. Along the way, he learns that, as much as the mannered and highly (gloriously) artificial In-of-Doors influences us, fictionality in general controls our lives more than anything real"--