Archive for June 17th, 2011
What’s Your Favorite Comic Novel?
Recently, the National Book Critics Circle asked its members about their favorite comic novel. The novel mentioned most often on the NBCC Blog was: Joseph Heller’s Catch-22.
In another NBCC Blog post, Nabokov’s novels, Lolita, Pale Fire, and Pnin are mentioned, too.
I didn’t write an essay on my favorite, but I would’ve chosen Stanley Elkin’s The Living End: A Triptych,
Everyone from John Irving to Sam Lipsyte to William Gass loved this book.
You can buy the newer 2004 edition in paperback.
