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The Ask

Article published 22nd Apr 10
Format: Book
Genre: Fiction
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The New York Review of Books desribes Sam Lipsyte as the "poet laureate of overeducated American loserdom". The NYRB rarely gets it wrong and with Milo Burke, the 39-year-old narrator in his latest cackfest The Ask, Lipsyte has found a pathecially fine self loather.

A cynical and unhappily married internet porn consessiour, Burke works "a good shitty job" at 'Medicore University' raising money to fund the arts program.

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How a Moth Becomes a Boat

Article published 21st Oct 09
Format: Book
Genre: Fiction
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Havana is a slum, no matter what people say. If you think it's all dancing and beautiful food, Jesus Christ, you've been misinformed. It's a vile city, with plenty of poverty, rum and counterfeit cigars, and to walk away loving such a horrible place is something I put down to the writing of Ernest Hemingway and that sickly Cuban fisherman.

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The Favourite Game

Article published 18th Feb 09
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Genre: Fiction
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Now, I won't profess to be a Leonard Cohen aficionado. But I do know that he is Montreal's premiere export, second only to William Shatner (who has a building named after him at McGill University).

So, anyway, in 1963, Cohen wrote a novel. The Favourite Game reads like Salinger with more sex and follows the early life of Larry Breavman, a precocious upstart who publishes his first book while still in college.

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