The original hardcover Superbad from McSweeney’s was a collection of two dozen pieces ranging from postmodern satire to more serious fiction. The lot of it has been remixed — much like popular music — and reprinted in trade paper. The result: a challenging novel with a clear set of themes and characters, tightly constructed and intricately interwoven. As Susan Minot writes, Greenman’s mind is hard to pin down and can be likened to that of "a Russian short story writer, a slapstick gag writer, an art critic, a literary critic, a cultural commentator, a cowboy, a satirist, a scientist ... a surrealist, a nut and genius, a stand-up comedian, a child prodigy, a dreamer, and a poet."
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"Just when you think Greenman has thoroughly excavated all available humor, he surprises with a snipe from an unforeseen direction."
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Ben Greenman is an editor at The New Yorker and the author of the underground indie hits Please Step Back, Superbad, and A Circle is a Balloon and Compass Both. His short fiction and music criticism has appeared in The New Yorker, the New York Times, the Washington Post and the Paris Review, and he writes a regular comedy column for McSweeney's. He lives in Brooklyn.
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By Ben's Mother (Coral Gables, Florida United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Superworse - The Novel: A Remix of Superbad: Stories and Pieces (Paperback)
Greenman showcases his abilities as a writer in this selection of newer and older pieces. I hope a novel is forthcoming from this brilliant young author. Greenman transcends the finest writers of his generation with his humor and his irony as well as with his sympathetic exploration of human emotions.
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