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I'd like to write a lot more about this. And will when I have time. If you dig the blackest kind of humor you'll like this. (Although one weakness of this particular sub-genre is that everyone is crazy and everyone speaks in crazy poetry.)
The addition of this and Pastoralia to my TBR list comes courtesy of this quote from "Art of Fielding" author Chad Harbach, who says, "Since 2000, the battle for Funniest Writer in America has been a mano a mano mountaintop clash between Lipsyte and George Saunders, and everybody else just stands ar...
Awesome article on this title by Amelia Gray in The Nov/Dec 2012 issue of Poets & Writers Magazine. Can't wait to track a copy of this book down and read it this winter, while hibernating!So very glad I picked up this wicked awesome collection! All 30 issues in one big book with excellent typesettin...
A very clever novel. I will write more when I am able to. Sam did a great job with this book. Well worth reading.
Witty and shallow, but not in the right proportion. It felt like Lipsyte was performing acrobatics in humor in order to please himself with his own skill. Sometimes the humor worked, sometimes it didn't. I was hoping for some meaningful social satire out of this book, but it didn't quite reach th...
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