Sam Tannenhaus

It's just this wild, scabrous satire of Black life in L.A.

He's pinwheeling.

This is Monty Python meets Richard Pryor.

And it's been a while since I'd read...

A book quite like that in terms of its topicality dealing with situations in L.A.

And it's also has this it bends into weird places.

And talk about writers who haven't published a book for a while.

I mean, we haven't seen another book from him since this book came out.

And I miss his voice.

It's funny.

We've had so many great, great books by Black writers this decade.

This is maybe the funniest one, you know, which is...

And Colson Whitehead can be very funny as well, by the way.

I'm not sure we've talked about him enough in this.

And I just think he's all that.

I agree with that.

At the same time, I'm sympathetic to those people who wish it had remained a UK phenomenon, only because I remember, you know, when it would often introduce you to writers you'd never heard of before, which is part of its draw.

Yeah.

And I guess that the heyday of the book was back before the internet.

And so we really knew less about a lot of these writers than we sort of introduced to us by the Booker Prize.