A Reading from New Comic Novels: Mark Leyner on The Sugar Frosted Nutsack, David Abrams on Fobbit and Antoine Wilson on Panorama City
Sunday, Nov. 18, 3:30 p.m., Room 8501 (Building 8, 5th Floor)
Author(s) and Guest(s)
Mark Leyner
Mark Leyner’s The Sugar Frosted Nutsack: A Novel (Little, Brown and Company, $24.99) is a psychedelic, drug-addled comedy featuring the gods and goddesses of the modern world who wreak havoc from their lairs high above the bustling streets of Dubai. An unemployed butcher for New Jersey becomes the latest pawn in their schemes. “. . . an anarchic masterpiece of vulgarity, total pandemonium and cartoonish free association . . .”—Publishers Weekly. Leyner is the author of the novels My cousin, My Gastroenterologist; Et Tu, Babe; and The Tetherballs of Bougainville. His nonfiction includes the bestseller Why Do Men Have Nipples?
David Abrams
Fobbit (Grove/Atlantic, $15.00) is David Abrams’ dark, sarcastic debut novel of the Iraq war. A Fobbit is Army vernacular for shirkers who stay in the relative safety of Forward Operating Bases at all costs. Set in Base Triumph, a Staff Sergeant works for the army public affairs office and spends his days tapping out press releases to try to turn the latest roadside bombing or army blunder into something that the American public can read about while eating their breakfast cereal. “. . .as funny, disturbing, heartbreaking and ridiculous as war itself."—The New York Times Book Review. Abrams retired in 2008 after a 20-year career in the active-duty Army as a journalist.
Antoine Wilson
Panorama City (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $24.00) is Antoine Wilson’s novel about finding our way in a world that wants us to be someone else. Oppen Porter is an open-hearted, bicycle-riding, binocular-toting, self-described “slow absorber,” who moves in with his reclusive father. Oppen experiments with various roles, eventually finding his place in life. “. . . fresh and flawlessly crafted as well as charmingly genuine.”—Publishers Weekly starred review. Wilson, a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, is the author of the novel The Interloper.
Schedule
Location
Miami Book Fair International * Miami Dade College
300 NE Second Ave., Miami, FL 33132
Room 8501 (Building 8, 5th Floor)
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