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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.
the kindle will never replace the feeling of a good book in your hands, when you can hold the labor that went into its creation. nor will it replace the feeling of a solid trackpad or dependable mouse as I click on my favorites and arrive here.
yeah, alright, it's cool.
Posted by: JW | May 19, 2009 at 10:58 PM
I'm one of those, you know, Millenials. As in Gen Y. As in, born in the '80's. While many of my peers used the internet almost exclusively for research in college, I continued to rack up $60 fines every semester because while I didn't mind a backpack full of heavy books when I left the library, I was loathe to lug it all back.
So, yeah, internet would have been easier, but the "old fashioned way" was, to me, way more satisfying.
Posted by: J.T. Oldfield | May 27, 2009 at 06:21 PM