Jim Knipfel's Slackjaw

[Otto]

Jim Knipfel's "Slackjaw" is out in German at Rowohlt: "Blindfisch".

"Slackjaw is an extraordinary emotional ride through the lives and times of
reader and writer alike. It is maniacally aglow with a born storyteller's
gifts of observation, an amiably deranged sense of humor, and a heart too
bounced around by his history, and ours, not to have earned Mr. Knipfel, at
last, an unsentimental clarity that is generous and deep. What begins as a
cautionary tale turns out to be, after all, an exemplary American life. The
Park Service ought to be charging admission. Long may he continue to
astonish us." -- Thomas Pynchon