Excerpt from Downtown Owl and Excerpt from Eating the Dinosaur Summary and Analysis

In the excerpt from "Downtown Owl", three characters from the story are discussed, those of Mitch, Julia, and Horace. Mitch is a high school football player who is angry at his coach, Laidlaw, who keeps impregnating high school girls. The name of the team is discussed, as is Laidlaw's demands for the team to ignore rumors. Julia is a new teacher at the school and already hates the town. After a meeting with the principal, she goes home to her small apartment to smoke several joints. Horace, an older gentleman, and his cronies, discuss the local events, including a fight in a bar with the local drunken bartender. In the excerpt from "Eating the Dinosaur", Klosterman discusses his views of time travel in...