Still, I am psyched to read his new one, Canada. (Hard to believe, right? Lay of the Land is about an aging real estate agent in New Jersey. (Ford and Saul Bellow capture this experience most accurately for me, and Bellow I first picked up after reading an interview with Ford in which he cited Bellow as one of his favorites.) But, man, was I disappointed by Lay of the Land, and especially the ending that was so much like that Die Antwoord video. And The Sportswriter and Independence Day express, as well as any novels that I have ever read, the wholeness of what it feels like to go through a day seeing with human eyes, thinking with a human brain, feeling with human emotions. He is my default answer to the impossible-to-answer question, “who is your favorite writer?” His short story collection Rock Springs is the book that first made me want to write myself. The Die Antwoord one reminds me of the ending of Richard Ford’s Lay of the Land.
I really don’t like watching teeth get knocked out of people’s mouths. If he did, I certainly hope that’s not how it happened.) (I don’t think Ninja really lost his front teeth.
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