RaveThe New York Times Book ReviewA collection of labyrinthine acrobatic lexical maneuvers delivered with the unadulterated confidence of the unhinged ... Frost repeatedly, explicitly, rejects narrative containment, preferring instead a lavish layering of philosophical reverie ... Robertson is capable of syntactic complexity but more interested in finding fresh ways to press words into use ... This is an extremely specific strain of fun, but we are definitely having it ... Having taken drudgery as its subject, Riverwork very much feels like play.
Barrett Brown
RaveThe New York Times Book ReviewExtraordinary ... Brown is an activist associated with the hacker group Anonymous, and a political prisoner recently denied asylum in Britain, all of which sounds a bit dreary until we hear tell of it through Brown’s unhinged self-regard ... Brown’s looping, musical sentences are flirtations, bending reason toward satire, hovering always on the fine edge between absurdity and profundity ... Deranged, hyperbolic and as true a work as I have read in a very long time.
