"Andrew Sean Greer's "Less Is Lost" is a touching, hilarious narrative that works both as a follow-up to Greer's Pulitzer Prize-winning "Less" and as an introduction to . Well, we didn't say, but he's a gay character. And that's what happened. Andrew Sean Greer. Its delightful. stockbroker things. Perhaps it simply contained too much margarine. Or, rather, Andrew Sean Greers brilliant breakout out of novel, the hilarious and heartbreaking. All Rights Reserved. A life of total freedom, romantic and intellectual. That it was a funny novel about someone in pain. BOLLEN: Thats where you find it. Three generations of very different gay men. What a lovely novel: stirring, inclusive, forgiving, and extraordinarily hopeful. He is the recipient of a NEA grant, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. is my favorite because its not trying as hard. BOLLEN: So seldom are writers are up for doing something fun in a photo shoot. Its interesting to think about it both ways. You can only stay in a motel with a neon sign. Perhaps the recipe was something that just belonged to Weesie, or to Christmas, or to the life my mother had left behind. Use of this site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement and Privacy Policy and Cookie Statement and Your California Privacy Rights. All Rights Reserved. Author. We hope you will read along and join us in coming weeks on our Now Read This Facebook page. My name is Elizabeth Tull, and I'm from Hopewell, New Jersey. It might be going to Sonoma to pick apples to make cider. It wears itself so lightly and I find it much more moving because its making fun of this character. My rational mind says, Wrong again, Andy. As hopeless, really, as that young man bringing home that dismally ordinary sweater. Why everything seems to be intentionally trying to make peoples lives worse. In Andrew Sean Greer's 2017 novel " Less ," our titular hero a gay novelist of a certain age, with a handsome face, thinning hair and a roughly equal balance of success and obscurity goes.