Superbad: Stories and Pieces
By (Author) Ben Greenman
Introduction by Laurence Onge
McSweeney's Publishing
McSweeney's Publishing
1st November 2001
Second ed.
United States
Hardback
210
Width 147mm, Height 216mm
477g
Ben Greenman's raucous new collection of stories and pieces ranges from the traditional to the impossible, from the Italian to the Russian, from the musical to the minimal. Greenman constructs layer upon layer of artifice, filling the spaces between with thousands of smooth, brown pellets of insight and humor. An editor at the New Yorker and a frequent contributor to McSweeney's , Greenman seamlessly assimilates Borges, Bartheleme, Chekhov and Calvino, developing asensibility at once wholly contemporary and tenderly reminiscent.