“The emperor is naked,” author David Perlstein says. He’s channeling the boy from Hans Christian Andersen’s The Emperor's New Clothes, but what Perlstein is really talking about are the strange truths that are the satirist’s job to lay bare to the rest of the world—if the world is willing to look.
Perlstein knows something about making people look. Until he retired five years ago, he made his living as a freelance advertising copywriter. His first published novel, Slick!, follows the beleaguered Bobby Gatling through a funny yet piercing take on American foreign policy in the ...
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