PositiveThe Washington Post...fascinating and eclectic ... as his narrative draws to a close and Burdick turns inward, revealing more about his life with his children, his wife, his aging parents and his father in law — as well as more about his personal history, his struggles as a writer and his complex relationship with the past — we grasp that this has been a voyage through Burdick’s life as a man, husband, father, son, writer and mortal human. In this sense, Why Time Flies evokes another far-ranging, symbolic odyssey with an everyman protagonist, that modernist conversion of Homer’s 3,000-year-old, decade-long epic into James Joyce’s Ulysses ... We never get a full-on portrait of Burdick, more of a tantalizing silhouette, but it’s enough to make us realize that this mostly scientific journey through the world of time is also a voyage of self-discovery and finding one’s way back home.
