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Scott Brown
Scott Brown is a senior writer for EW and a frequent contributor to National Public Radio -- he has the tote bag to prove it
Who is Viskovitz? It would be easy to dismiss him as a pig, if he weren't also such a rat. Not to mention an elk, a lion, an ant, and so on and so forth. Boffa, in a series of short parables, reincarnates his charming, lovelorn narcissist of a narrator as various fauna, each with its own peculiar (but devastatingly familiar) set of inborn dysfunctions. The whole exercise sounds unbearably cute, but Boffa's background in biology infuses Viskovitz (his first book) with a wry scientist's unsentimental observational humor. The resulting genius is in a genus by itself.
Posted May 31, 2002
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