The weekend saw coverage of two passings of note - Saudi novelist Abdul Rahman Munif and Bulgaria's Yordan Radichkov.
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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.
Nooooooooooo!! Munif died? My morning's getting shittier by the second.
Posted by: moorishgirl.com | January 26, 2004 at 11:31 AM
Sorry Laila - always hate to be the bearer of bad news.
Posted by: TEV | January 26, 2004 at 11:48 AM