Our dear friend Laila Lalami is a finalist for the NBCC's Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing! Let all talk about the so-called divisions between print and blogs end herewith. The full list is here.
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In his recent TEV guest review of Home Land, Jim Ruland called Sam Lipsyte the "funniest writer of his generation," and we're quite inclined to agree. We tore through Home Land in two joyful sittings and can't remember the last time we've laughed so hard. Lipsyte's constellation of oddly sympathetic losers is rendered with a sparkling, inspired prose style that's sent us off in search of all his prior work. In Lewis Miner's (a.k.a Teabag) woeful epistolary dispatches to his high school alumni newsletter ("I did not pan out."), we find an anti-hero for the age. Highly, highly recommended.
That's great news.
Posted by: genevieve | January 25, 2009 at 05:49 PM
Well deserved!!!
Posted by: vasilis | January 26, 2009 at 03:19 AM
Wonderful!
Posted by: Pamela | January 26, 2009 at 07:33 AM