Hectic around here today, posting erratic but we can now officially announce that we are, in fact, Rooster judges once more.
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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.
Helen DeWitt, too. I'm glad to see her popping up on the radar again, at TMN and in the latest n+1.
Posted by: James | February 28, 2008 at 02:38 PM