Don't forget, you'll have a rare opportunity to see and hear Joseph O'Neill this evening at the Hammer Museum. We'll be in the audience and will deliver a full report afterwards.
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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 look forward to reading your report! By the way, tonight I will be at the Daniyal Mueenuddin reading in DC (Politics and Prose).
Posted by: Emerson Zora Hamsa | February 24, 2009 at 02:06 PM