![]() ![]() Boyle, Sam Lipsyte, and Colson Whitehead. The audience chimed in and everyone followed a side thread about comic classics read aloud with a shout-out of the best readers of their own comic work aloud, including Chimamanda Adichie,from her new work in progress, Donald Antrim, T.C. Video of the conversation of the NBCC Reads event at the Center for Fiction above.Ī round robin of comic favorites followed. ![]() Tin House editor Rob Spillman's favorite? The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams. Parul Sehgal, this year's Balakian winner and PW editor, loves Muriel Spark's The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. What's your favorite comic novel? Novelist Beth Gutcheon chose Evelyn Waugh's first novel, and explained why, noting that Catch-22 and Lucky Jim also were first novels. ![]()
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