- Laura Warholic
Infobox Book
name = Laura Warholic
image_caption = Cover design
author =Alexander Theroux
country =United States
language = English
publisher =Fantagraphics Books (first edition )
release_date = 2007
media_type = Print (clothboundhardcover )
pages = 878
isbn = 1-56097-798-1"Laura Warholic or, The Sexual Intellectual" is a 2007 novel by
Alexander Theroux . The plot concerns the relationship between Eugene Eyestones, the writer of an advice column called "The Sexual Intellectual", and his editor's ex-wife, Laura Warholic, whom Eyestones pities more than likes. This basic story provides the jumping off point for Theroux's satire of American culture.The book was published by Fantagraphics Books, a comics publisher who had published Theroux's monographs on
Edward Gorey andAl Capp . Notably, it is the first all-prose novel released by the publisher. Theroux stated they were the only ones "willing to publish the full manuscript without carping or cozy abridgements." (Citation
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first=Anthony
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title=The Satirical Intellectual
newspaper=LA CityBeat
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year=2007
date=November 11 ,2007
url=http://www.lacitybeat.com/cms/story/detail/?IssueNum=1&id=36)External links
* [http://www.bookslut.com/features/2008_03_012503.php An Interview with Alexander Theroux]
* [http://www.radioboston.org/index.php/2008/02/14/alex-theroux-read-from-his-latest-novel.html Audio of Theroux reading from "Laura Warholic"]
* [http://www.strandbooks.com/app/www/p/tv/3?videohighlight=2521 Video of Theroux reading from "Laura Warholic" at The Strand bookstore in NYC]
* [http://www.fantagraphics.com/index.php?option=com_myblog&show=Free-download-Laura-Warholic-Chapter-1.html&Itemid=113 First chapter as a PDF]
* [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/17/AR2008011702717.html "Washington Post" review]
* [http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/23/books/review/Bowman-t.html "New York Times" review]
* [http://www.boston.com/ae/books/articles/2008/02/27/striking_novel_sends_some_quirky_characters_down_a_rocky_road/ "Boston Globe" review]
* [http://www.powells.com/review/2007_12_09.html Powell's review]
* [http://colinmarshall.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=350666 An interview with Alexander Theroux about "Laura Warholic"] on "The Marketplace of Ideas "
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