Dennis Latham: Life, Fiction, and the Pursuit of Madness

The novel is actually my first novel. I shelved it for years. (click to enlarge) Get the Book Here Is Everybody Nuts? is a satiric novel centered around the 1977 wedding of millionaire Oswald Salt's daughter, Susan, to David Marino, who works in his father's pool hall. Susan will marry David Marino at her father's house, but the Salt mansion becomes a gathering point for every nut in the city on their wedding day. Guests, many uninvited, include a bizarre film director and his crew, a meteor god worshipper, a motorcycle gang, Mafia hoods, a racist caterer, a crazy doctor, corrupt millionaires, winos and grifters, a doped out rock band, the police commissioner, a bomber with yellow feet, horses and covered wagons, the FBI, and a really strange super-hero the Masked Meatball. Oswald Salt tried to stop his daughter from getting married, and when that failed, he tries to make the wedding a success. Oswald Salt will ask the question no one can answer: Is Everybo