Calvin Trillin's Murray Tepper is a kind of Chauncey Gardiner from Kosinski's Being There: He sits in his car in Manhattan, legally parked and reading a newspaper, and people start to approach him for advice. The title refers to the fact that Tepper intends to stay parked for as long as he has paid the meter; when drivers notice him and ask if he is "going out," the answer is always no. These seem like slim reeds to support a novel, but Tepper is good-natured fun and doesn't need to be anything more.
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