It's been a few years since I first read Funnymen by Ted Heller (it was published in 2002). I read so many books, and my memory is shot anyway, so it was time to give it another go (Heller is also the author of one of my all-time favorite comic novels, Slab Rat.) The "funnymen" of the novel are t...
Where else could I find a place where failure was not only expected, but was hoped for? For when you’re sitting around an online poker table, you’re joined by at least one other and possibly nine other likeminded souls and, though they are out to take your money, you are, for a short time, willful...