In the character Rasputin, Ben Fountain imagines a challenger for our current president—whose all-too-familiar name, it bears mentioning, is completely redacted from the text.
(“Less for legal reasons,” he explained, “than that I was simply tired of seeing it.”)
'Rasputin Swims the Potomac,' North Carolina writer Ben Fountain's fifth book, is a biting political satire that releases in June.
