MEMBER BLOG TAG: humor in literature
| Saturday, May 1, 2010 9:18AM | | | | Love Is Being Horny in a Tie | Tags: robert coover, quim monzo, masturbatory images, samuel beckett, humor in literature, love, happiness, god
| | | A number of years ago, when I was working for a different publishing house, Robert Coover suggested I take a look at the work of Catalan author Quim Monzo. I had someone do a reader's report on 100 Stories, but the project sort of fizzled out despite the fact that the samples translated into English were brilliant and hilarious. Fast forward a few years, I'm now at Open Letter, have been to Barcelona (where I fell in love with the city and its culture, and where the people are always smiling and happy), met Quim Monzo, and signed on a bunch of his books, including the novel Gasoline, which we published a few weeks ago.
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