Weirdly compelling. The Great Gatsby, arcade-game style.
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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 can't tell what he's throwing. Croissants?
Posted by: Hans Erik | February 16, 2011 at 03:26 PM
How about the Baz Luhrmann 3D film version starring DiCaprio as Jay G. and Carey Mulligan as Daisy??!! Filming begins in Sydney (instead of NY-gasp) this August.
Posted by: Diane Cordova | February 23, 2011 at 11:02 PM