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"Lethem is one of our most perceptive cultural critics, conversant in both the high and low realms, his insights buffeted by his descriptive imagination.” —Los Angeles Times Book Review

“A writer gifted at playing with genre forms and riffing on popular culture.” —USA Today

“The expected and welcome pleasures of reading Lethem: his intellect, dialogue and wry humor . . . so much of his work [is] inventive, entertaining and superbly written.” —New York Times Book Review

“He remains . . . a literary patron saint: the Brooklyn boy who did us proud by immortalizing our borough in contemporary fiction.” —Xochitl Gonzalez, The Atlantic

“Jonathan Lethem is a verbal performance artist.” —Boston Globe

“I love and admire the way Lethem’s always pushing at the edges of the form. He’s so in command of the material, both of the subject and the language, that it sometimes feels as if he’s improvising on it, or even floating free of it completely, the way a jazz musician might. His wonderfully corrosive humor is underpinned by a strange, mixed sense of outrage and tenderness.” —Rupert Thomson, author of The Book of Revelation and Dartmouth Park

“A writer of abundant literary gifts who applies them with unapologetic enthusiasm.” —The Telegraph

“[Lethem is] as sharp a critic as he is a novelist. —Austin American-Statesman

“The quality of Lethem’s prose and the exuberance of his imagination are reasons enough to read [him] . . . When it comes to style, Lethem has few equals.” —Miami Herald

“Lethem writes knowingly and brilliantly about weird, off-the-grid, wayward America.” —Dana Spiotta

“One of his generation’s finest writers.” —The Maine Edge