Sam Lipsyte's The Ask is out on March 2. I read it this weekend, in one sitting, and do heartily endorse it for all your literary needs. It will remind you in places of Joseph Heller, Money-era Martin Amis, and several other great writers, but it is the work of a wholly original voice who can plumb the depths of our sorry condition while simultaneously inducing audible cackling. It is very much a book for These Troubled Times.