You'll want to see what happens in the final round of the Tournament of Books.
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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.
I still can't quite figure out how The Savage Detectives did so poorly.
Posted by: xmattxyzx | March 31, 2008 at 06:12 AM
How cool would it have been if Diaz said, "Thanks guys. It's a great honor, but you should have chosen the Savage Detectives."
Posted by: EG | March 31, 2008 at 03:55 PM
In case you guys missed it, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao was an incredible book.
Posted by: Matt Pearce | March 31, 2008 at 04:20 PM
I didn't really it that much. Oh well.
Posted by: xmattxyzx | March 31, 2008 at 04:29 PM
No argument from here, although I never did get around to Bolano.
Posted by: David Worsley | March 31, 2008 at 07:40 PM
I'd've picked Bolano's book over Oscar Wao, with Remainder taking the bronze, so I can't be too disappointed in the results.
Savage Detectives had a freak loss, running into an unsympathetic judge, but it was clearly among the most respected titles in the competition.
The really exciting news, of course, is that there's now a release date for the English version of 2666--November of 2008.
Posted by: James | April 01, 2008 at 07:26 PM