In 1998 our reviewer, Gloria Rohmann, called this a "witty first novel."

The Guardian called it "A witty, inventive, exhilarating novel."

They said they wanted novels that were readable, enjoyable, witty; they talked about well-constructed narrative.

All this is the yeast for David Slavitt's witty 14th novel, "Salazar Blinks."

While he did not show any conspicuous parliamentary ability, he was made a great success by his vivacious and witty novel, Piccadilly (1870).

"Read this witty and shrewdly joyful novel," Richard P. Brickner wrote here in 1972.

A witty, disturbing, memorable novel that tracks the travails of an English missionary couple who have strayed farther from home than was wise.

Claire LaZebnik has written an amazingly surefooted, witty, and delicious novel, romantic and smart.

And, as we're reminded in Elizabeth Hay's witty new novel, there are the movies.

This is the question Westerfeld dramatizes in a witty and energetic novel.