After 40 years of obscurity, comic novelist Bob Plunkett is finally getting the attention his devoted fans thought he deserved. He talked about the book and his sudden emergence on the national literary scene on WMNF WaveMakers with Janet and Tom. His novel “My Search for Warren Harding” was recently republished after 40 years to acclaim by the New York Times, the Paris Review and the New Yorker.
“Have you ever smoked a joint and read Toni Morrison’s ‘Sula’ in a very hot bath, reveling in a single, rich paragraph for what feels like an hour?” says the novelist, whose new book is “Time’s Mouth.” “If not, may I suggest you try it?”
Robert Plunket’s 1983 novel had “anticipated and influenced much of what the culture would begin to find funny,” according to the novelist Danzy Senna.…