Thank God it doesn't end with Drown. Here Junot Diaz holds us over until September, when The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao hits stores.
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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.
G-d bless you for the post I've been carrying Drown around with me for so long the copy's long worn. Now all I need is a new book by Nathan Englander and I'm good to go
Posted by: Michael | March 07, 2007 at 07:51 PM
I'm the co-founder of a new literary magazine, Slice, and a big fan of Junot Diaz's work. Please check out our website and read about our debut issue, which includes an exclusive interview with Junot Diaz about how he began his writing career. www.slicemagazine.org.
Posted by: Celia Johnson | July 31, 2007 at 07:09 AM