“A masterpiece . . . One of the few genuinely comic novels since Lucky Jim.” -- Elaine DundyEver since college, George Wren has dreamed of working at The Outsider, the prestigious weekly edited by his hero, the suave English expat Gilbert Twinin...
Jonathan Oglethorpe, an editor, and Waldo Spinks, an aging novelist, race to write the perfect comic novel about art, life, and sex in the Hamptons, as they try to organize the local writers' softball team...
The author's third collection of essays discusses literary figures such as Hemingway and Salinger, fatherhood, Ronald Reagan, television, politics, American humor, the Catholic Church, and other topics...