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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.
Who's next? Philip Roth?
Posted by: Niall | January 28, 2010 at 02:01 PM
God, I hope not. The Humbling CANNOT be his last word ...
Posted by: TEV | January 28, 2010 at 02:52 PM
Gore Vidal's probably next, unfortunately.
Posted by: F.H. | January 28, 2010 at 07:46 PM
Danielle Steele has been looking very jaundiced lately. Just saying.
Posted by: tod goldberg | January 29, 2010 at 12:06 AM
I think death would be afraid of Gore Vidal. And does Auchincloss really count as a "giant"? I wonder.
Posted by: Niall | January 29, 2010 at 09:48 AM