Did the Russians invent baseball? Is there a connection between Babe Ruth’s cross-dressing and Gertrude Stein’s secret mission to New York? What does history tell us about what lies beyond heaven?
From the American heartland to Hiroshima, to Paris, to shopping malls and caves with prehistoric art, Ivan the Terrible Goes on a Family Picnic is a wild ride across generations and frontiers of the imagination.
Notices
“What Holdefer says about me is mostly true. You can ask Gertrude about the rest.”
—Babe Ruth
“я не могу перестать улыбаться.”
—Ivan the Terrible
“If I amuse myself with cleats on a summer’s day it is for myself and not for others’ amusement however amusing they might find my amusement.”
—Gertrude Stein
“No comment.”
—God