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The Mayor's Tongue ReviewI picked up this book along with Keith Gessen's book (about with the less said the better) based on an LA Times story about young New York literary editors and their brand new novels. From the story I was expecting a book in the sort of early Roth or Bellow vein of brilliant if self-indulgent navel-gazing (for that, see Gessen) - but it turns out this is the craziest novel I've read since reading Calvino and Borges in college. It starts out with a post-collegiate guy in New York kind of annoyingly trying to find himself through manual labor, working as a mover, but as soon as you realize his moving partner is some kind of mad Dominican shape-shifter, the book just cuts loose into a quasi-surreal quest around the world in pursuit of a demagogic writer (who seemed to be based on Norman Mailer or Ernest Hemingway, but with a good does of Pynchon & Salinger mystery about him). It becomes this really delightful, sometimes melancholy novel about desperate love and literary obsession and really, really trying to communicate. All of which are things I feel like I know a little too much about - and seeing them treated so well and so creatively here got me more excited about a new writer than I have been for a long time. Weird or not, though I like weird.The Mayor's Tongue Overview

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