We'd link to Robert Birnbaum's interview with Ben Jones (author of The Rope Eater) even if he hadn't made kind mention of us and some of our friends.
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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.
Jeez. First Kate Lee, now Birnbaum. What's it going to take to get into this coterie? Even Skull and Bones sent a nice rejection letter (OK, it was a form letter on a tattered scrap of parchment, rolled up in a hollowed out Malacca cane, but still).
I'll be weeping quietly into my pillow if anyone needs me.
Posted by: T. | May 27, 2004 at 01:48 PM
Reading The Rake complain about not being mentioned I feel a bit like the character in the Monty Python movie the Life of Brian:
"Ohh! What wouldn't I give to be spat at in the face! I sometimes hang awake at night dreaming of being spat at in the face."
Not really, though, as I am more of a fellow traveller than a serious literary blogger. But being a blogger I can't help but being a little jealous nonetheless. The key is low expecations . . .
Posted by: kevin holtsberry | May 27, 2004 at 03:03 PM