![]() ![]() Kathryn Schulz wrote in a 2015 New Yorker profile that Zink is "a comic writer par excellence, one whose particular gift is the capacity to keep a perfectly straight face." In her previous work, particularly the semi-Shakespearean social comedy Mislaid and the madcap eco-adventure The Wallcreeper, Zink combined that capacity with a wild imagination and an impulse for zigzagging, lies, and big ideas mashed up with big plot moves. To me, Zink is the English language's funniest literary novelist. That difference proves the downfall of Nell Zink's fifth novel, Doxology, in which Pizzagate makes a brief appearance. Pizzagate taught me the difference between absurdity and humor. It was also homophobic, viciously cruel, and - even before an armed vigilante showed up to "self-investigate" - too frightening to be funny. The conspiracy, which posited Democratic Party higher-ups trafficking children for sex beneath Comet's concrete floors, was conceptually ludicrous. ![]() My office shared a wall with Comet Ping Pong, a similarly beloved pizza restaurant that became the target of the alt-right conspiracy Pizzagate. ![]() How?ĭuring the 2016 election, I worked in events at Politics and Prose, one of Washington, D.C.'s best-beloved bookstores. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title Doxology Author Nell Zink ![]()
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