Titboning Vargina (and Other Social Readings): Review of Sam Lipsyte’s The Ask --- Darryl Whetter | Numéro Cinq
The Ask Sam Lipsyte 296 pp. $25 ISBN 978-0-374-29891-3 As a Canadian, I’m ashamed that American fiction, which is largely underwritten by a market, has a keener social eye than Canadian fiction, which is underwritten significantly by state-funded, supposedly arms-length grants. Contemporary American novels from maturing writers like Jonathan Franzen, Jennifer Egan, Michael Cunningham and
