Literary Up: Moon Unit

Good Night Keith Moon
By Bruce Worden and Clare Cross (Word of Mouth Press, 2011)
It’s no Go the Fuck to Sleep—that book brilliantly takes magical fantasy into the real-life deadlines and frayed nerves. Good Night Keith Moon, not to mention the Goodnight Our World series which revises Good Night Moon into geographically and historically specific details, takes Margaret Wise Brown’s delightfully disorienting randomness and makes it real. And there’s not much humor there. Good Night Keith Moon’s funniest moment is its title; after that, it’s just filling pages with drunken rock star stereotypes. What it needs is not far afield—the absurdist and open-ended imagery of a good Who song.