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...EXPERIENCE: Taking a breather from fiction, Martin Amis writes movingly about life with his famous father, Kingsley, who died in 1995. The book hums with the same antic prose and looping comic riffs that characterize Martin's novels, along with a surprising admixture of tenderness...
...AMAZING ADVENTURES OF KAVALIER & CLAY: Michael Chabon's serious but never somber tribute to the golden age of American comic books leaps 600 pages in a single bound. The title characters create an imaginary pulp icon while they live through a vivid era of real-life melodramas from the 1930s...
...WHITE TEETH: Zadie Smith's miraculous first novel takes place in a tumultuously multicultural London where unlikely friendships and even more unlikely romances rule. Much of the action is comic, but even at their most foolish, Smith's characters are both fascinating and admirable...
...Crimson offered its comic suggestions, the prominent candidates in the selection process each revealed distinct shortcomings...
...Show tanked in 1996, Smigel had enough money saved to write only when inspiration struck. He salvaged his Ambiguously Gay Duo cartoon (about a superhero combo that is really close) from Carvey and started making episodes for SNL. That, and his work on Late Night as Triumph, the insult comic dog (whose catchphrase is "For me to poop on!"), spawned TV Funhouse. "I have this strange career where I bounce around between these two late-night shows and movies and stuff," says Smigel, who just has to call O'Brien or Lorne Michaels whenever he wants to do a sketch...