The Importance of a Comic Novel

There is a sense among many readers that a comic novel is not a serious novel, says nutcranker's author. "We live in clown world and we desperately need art that reflects how absurd and hilarious the situation is," he adds. The only sensible thing to do it seems to me is to ask for the manuscript back aside from making some deletions i don't think i could really do much to the book now"