Fahrenheit 23

Thursday, 7 June 2012

The curse of the comic novel


Yesterday the Kindle Deal of the Day was The Graduate Student, a comic novel apparently based on the largely hallucinatory life of an anthropologist in Hollywood. It gets mixed reviews.

I think Catch-22 is the only comic novel I've read that is consistently ridiculous and resolutely real. Maybe comic fiction is the hardest to write.
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