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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.
C'est pire qu'un crime, c'est une erreur.
Posted by: Niall | October 05, 2009 at 04:51 PM
"In the future, everyone will be full for fifteen minutes."
Posted by: Damon Young | October 05, 2009 at 06:44 PM
im not lovin it.
Posted by: Andrew Ross | October 05, 2009 at 08:22 PM
always looking for an excuse to link to http://www.flickr.com/photos/areminder/2444755092/
Posted by: tito | October 05, 2009 at 09:09 PM
Vous aiment des frites avec cela?
Posted by: C- | October 05, 2009 at 11:38 PM
Can't wait for the "Mc Lisa".
It just well illustrates where France's values stand now. And I say this as a (ashamed) French.
Posted by: Nick | October 06, 2009 at 02:23 AM
I remember all these strikes and boycotts that happened in front of a McDonalds on St. Germain when I lived in Paris. I remember going in to that restaurant and eating with a French friend. He was cussing out McDonalds left and right while eating his Filet-o-Fish.
Posted by: Jerry Sticker | October 06, 2009 at 05:27 AM
Jerry - The French have long ago surrendered to McDo. France is in fact McDonalds second most profitable market. You know that whenever the French make a big deal out of rejecting something American, they are this-close to totally succumbing to it.
Posted by: Niall | October 06, 2009 at 07:47 AM
I almost tweeted the exact same thing.
Posted by: Kati | October 06, 2009 at 09:14 AM
I'll withhold my alarm until I see the Golden Arches painted into the background of the Mona Lisa.
Posted by: Pete | October 06, 2009 at 10:24 AM
This kind of makes the Louvre seem common. Wait until someone gets special sauce on the walls and there is trash everywhere.
Posted by: Rebecca | October 09, 2009 at 01:35 PM