Satire | Satire
Feb.12.2008
Superfag, a son of Zeus, is sent by his heavenly
father to rid the world of homophobia. Good luck!
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Feb.12.2008
Through some kind of time warp that he doesn't understand, William Shakespeare
finds himself thrust into the modern era, with his new play almost finished. Of course
no one believes it's Shakespeare, and so Will has to live the life of a modern playwright:
getting a part-time office job,...
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Feb.12.2008
Being a Compendium of the Best Advice About,
and the Most Worthy Codification of, the
Standards of Good Manners and Agreeable
Social Behavior. ME-OWW!
(It covers everything from airplane travel
to orgies.)
"We were very concerned about this book and do
not recommend it for one moment....
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Jan.31.2008
A college professor faces the dark side of
the Internet in a so-called "review" website
that allows any and all, even non-students, to
destroy whomever they like with libel, lies,
and license, by bribing and blackmailing teachers
for grades, all the while Political Correctness
strangles...
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Jan.04.2008
So long, South Beach. Farewell, fat-free. Adieu, tofu. Retox is here to help bring back the good times and friends that fell by the wayside on that mind-numbing path to health and well-being. Putting the fun back in dysfunction, this antidote to detoxification calls out soul-searching, colon-...
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Dec.17.2007
In seventeen slices of life that defy the expected and launch us into the absurd, Boyle offers his unique view of the world. A primate-center researcher becomes romantically involved with a chimp; a Norse poet overcomes bard-block; collectors compete to snare the ancient Aztec beer can,...
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Dec.17.2007
Boyle has a wonderful eye for the comedy of imposture when the self-deceived themselves practice deception. His ninth novel, which centers on the travails of a hippie commune, Drop City, in the early 1970s, gives him plenty of poseurs to work with. Drop City, in Sonoma County, California, is run,...
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Dec.13.2007
SoMa is the nickname for San Francisco's gritty South of Market neighborhood. The novel tells the interwoven stories of twentysomethings on the prowl for thrills in the wake of the city's infamous dot-com bust.
It's a bit stranger than fiction. The places seen in the book are real, and the...
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Dec.10.2007
It should come as no surprise that the Neal Pollack Anthology of American Literature is the inaugural title from McSweeney’s Books, the publishing arm of Dave Eggers’ literary quarterly McSweeney’s. There appears to be two Neal Pollacks at work in the literary world. There’s the legendary award-...
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