The Greatest Novel Ever Written

"I've never read anything like it. It was like exhilarating the prose," he says of Derek Walcott's Castle Faggot. "It's extremely, extremely funny and very outrageous and filthy." The novel is set in a brothel but also inside a haunted house amusement attraction. In America now, if you get busted with that, you're in jail for the rest of your life pretty much.