"A riotous exploration of ambition, passion and greed, carried by concrete mixers and run through car washes, always with a keen eye on contemporary American folly." -Christopher Smith, theater critic, The Orange County Register

"This hilarious novel within a novel showcases all the wit and brilliance long-time fans will remember from Jeff Kramer's humor columns. From the halls of publishing to small-town entrepreneurship, no one emerges unscathed, not even Woody, the bumbling but well-meaning hero of his own purple prose. A raucous satire of our times that is also an affecting study of family bonds and an acerbic tribute to the flawed, glorious, once-mighty dinosaur that was daily journalism." -Ana Menendez, critically acclaimed author of In Cuba I Was a German Shepherd and The Apartment, winner of the Pushcart Prize for short-story writing, award-winning Miami Herald columnist, and creative writing professor