No one gets off the hook in Gilbert Sorrentino's writing—least of all writers. In between noirish fantasies, Algerian coming-of-age caricatures, and a sturdy index of poetry, the prolific Brooklyn author has made a regular habit of taking his own kind to task. But Sorrentino's satires tend to come in such artfully self-aware, Nabokovian packages that they both pry open the capabilities of the medium and let... More >>>