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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 really need to stop letting my brain get ahead of my reading. I got to the "verm" part of "vermin" before my brain went "something cool and literary is happening in Vermont! Finally!" Then I finished reading the word and was sad.
It's like the time my housemate was talking about taking his students on a camping trip and said "The wind was so strong it blew away two of my" and I decided he lost students. Turns out it was just two tents.
Posted by: P.T.Smith | April 03, 2009 at 06:27 AM
2 of our chefs are coming to this? thanks for the heads up!
best, s
Posted by: s. stockwell | April 06, 2009 at 11:00 AM