Evidently, our talent for prognostication is nonexistent.
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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.
But your talent for novel-writing is paramount!
Posted by: Matt | March 11, 2009 at 11:41 AM
Congratulations!!!
béatrice
Posted by: béatrice Mousli | March 11, 2009 at 11:51 AM
Amazing!
Posted by: Brady Westwater | March 11, 2009 at 11:59 AM
Wonderful, Mark!
Posted by: Pamela | March 11, 2009 at 12:13 PM
Felicitations.
Posted by: J.D. Finch | March 11, 2009 at 12:23 PM
Mazel tov!
Posted by: BC Silvia | March 11, 2009 at 12:33 PM
Does Harry, Revised now move on to the next round? Or is it a fresh two every time?
Posted by: Niall | March 11, 2009 at 01:11 PM
The way it works is the first round must finish out - there are, I think, five more pairings. Then the winners of each of those round will advance to round 2, which is in about a week or so. You won't see Harry again until that round - it will face whoever wins tomorrow's pairing.
Thanks very much to all the well wishers!
Posted by: TEV | March 11, 2009 at 02:09 PM
Here's to the endearingly authentic output of a confused mind.
Posted by: Paul T. | March 11, 2009 at 02:24 PM
Mark -
We should get a betting pool together then...
Posted by: Niall | March 11, 2009 at 02:49 PM
How exciting! I wonder who you'll be up against next?
:-)
Posted by: LiteraryMinded | March 11, 2009 at 05:10 PM
They will succumb to your prowess.
Posted by: DenverScribe | March 11, 2009 at 05:46 PM
Congratulations Mark.
It's going to be fun to turn over multiple copies of Harry when the paperback comes out in a month or so.
You know with Neverland knocked out and Bolano getting beat last year, just maybe...
Posted by: David Worsley | March 11, 2009 at 08:11 PM
You can take Bolano. Secretly, he knows he's UNLV, you're Duke, and its the 1991 NCAA semifinals all over again.
Posted by: Matt Ellsworth | March 11, 2009 at 11:14 PM
Hey! Congratulations!
Posted by: Will Amato | March 12, 2009 at 12:38 AM
Mark, Bolano has got nothing on you! The first book in the 2666 box set is a masterpiece, the second is one of the worst books I have ever read, and the third is better than average, but it doesn't match the intensity found in the first book of the series.
Mark, your book is consistently good throughout.
Posted by: Chucky Winklemeyer | March 12, 2009 at 05:30 AM
Congrats. A real upset. Hey, babeee, that's why they call it 'March Madness!'
Best,
Jim H.
Posted by: Jim H. | March 12, 2009 at 12:28 PM
Bravo and well-deserved!
Posted by: LW | March 12, 2009 at 08:21 PM