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He was primarily known for unleashing that arsenal in scabrously witty and linguistically daring novels, but he was also an essayist, memoirist and critic of the first rank.

From New York Times • May 20, 2023

His “Triangle of Sadness,” is a long, windy, beautifully composed, scabrously funny takedown of Western capitalist excess in its many forms: billionaires, war profiteers, fashion models, social-media influencers and other targets of sometimes eye-roll-inducing obviousness.

From Los Angeles Times • May 29, 2022

Francis McDormand plays Mildred, the grieving — yet scabrously funny — mother of a murdered teenage girl who has installed a series of billboards accusing her town’s police chief of inaction.

From Washington Post • Dec. 6, 2017

From the moment he hugged you hello, he was himself: scabrously funny, theatrically kvetchy, needy and paranoid and observant and discerning—in short, totally crazy, but also crazy good company.

From Slate • May 9, 2012

"Pierre writes to his strengths," Roger Hutchinson noted in the Scotsman, "namely, a vital narrative voice, inventive, freewheeling and scabrously funny."

From The Guardian • Aug. 27, 2010