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title: 'Worst. Novel. Ever.'
date: '2003-02-24T11:26:28-05:00'
permalink: /worst-novel-ever/
tags:
- novels
---
Gene Weingarten at the Washington Post believes himself to have found “the worst novel ever published in the English language.” Moreover, he has gotten an [interview](http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57528-2003Feb11.html "Washington Post") with Robert Burrows, the author of said opus, [The Great American Parade](http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?isbn=0972357505 "Not available at a Barnes & Noble near you"). Its a shame, quite frankly, because the idea of the parade itself, in the hands of David Foster Wallace, say, or William Gaddis would be a set-piece of beauty. One quickly understands from the interview, however, that it simply was not to be.