Superworse: The Novel: A Remix of Superbad: Stories and Pieces

By Ben Greenman

"Greenman's mind may contain 'a Russian short story writer, a slap-stick gag writer, an art critic, a literary critic, a cultural commentator, a cowboy, a satirist, a scientist . . . a surrealist, a nut, and genius . . . a child prodigy . . . and a poet' (Susan Minot).

The original McSweeney's, Superbad comprised more than two dozen pieces in various genres from serious fiction to post-modern satire to lyric. This Soft Skull edition will reconceive Superbad with an eye toward its overall architecture, emphasizing that the individual pieces are intricately related to one another, as movements in a symphony or gears in a clockwork. Onge, the fictitious] editor who introduced Superbad, will oversee the paperback, allowing a clear set of themes and characters to emerge from the welter of styles. The book is tightly constructed, with a mirror-image arrangement and many characters, not all human, threaded throughout. Rather than conceiving this project simply as a paperback edition, the release is more like a remix, in the fashion of popular music. Superbad was a humor collection in the finest McSweeney's tradition; Superworse is a novel in the spirit of Borges and Barthelme.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1932360131
• ISBN13: 9781932360134
• Release Date: December 2003
• Publisher: Soft Skull
• Length: 155 Pages
• Weight: 4.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.6" x 8.2"

Customer Reviews

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Greenman showcases his abilities as a writer in this selection of newer and older pieces. I hope a novel is forthcoming from this brilliant young author. Greenman transcends the finest writers of his generation with his humor and his irony as well as with his sympathetic exploration of human emotions.