Orhan Pamuk interviewed at Brooklyn Rail.
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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.
"Well, at the heart of this great art of the novel that we’re talking about lies the human capacity to identify with what we call “the other.”
What a line...and what an epilogue to a simple interview (when he quotes from his Nobel Prize acceptance speech):
"I write because I have never managed to be happy. I write to be happy"
Posted by: blue cave | February 08, 2008 at 07:26 AM