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Vacillates between the funniest humor & passages of real depth, but then right to some hilarious joke. Authorial power, art in a world of Capital, pointlessness, love.
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Matthew Goldin is “to put it simply… for better or worse, a compelling North American entertainer and prose stylist.”
His new book “Matthew” is hilarious and a bit of an anomaly. Matthew’s twitter has been my favorite account for years (Which I’ve linked). His new book seems to be poking fun at the humorist memoir concept. It’s incredibly funny thus far.
PI should have him on the editorial.
Aug 21, 2024
He wrote for the Marx Brothers (and looked like one). His short comedy prose was jaw droppingly verbose but also laugh-out-loud funny, even to someone reading them a good seven or eight decades past their sell-by date.
The Library of America is reprinting a couple of his classics. Crazy Like A Fox is the place to start.
Feb 9, 2024
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John Swartzwelder is the funniest writer in the world. I don’t know that I could write about him and do him justice, but he was a longtime Simpsons writer and then started self-publishing books that are so incredibly joke dense it will blow your mind. Here’s a quote from The Time Machine Did It, one of his many books following a strange detective named Frank Burly: “When I first became a detective I had tried solving crimes the way mystery writers do: coming up with the solution to the crime first, then working back to the point where you don't know what the hell is going on. But for some reason every time I tried that I ended up locked in a closet.”
Feb 24, 2022
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If you've read other Saunders & not understood what the fuss is about, this is what it's about. Required IMO.
Feb 19, 2024
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Whither Evelyn, Loren, Leslie?
Mar 14, 2024
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Indispensable
Feb 14, 2024