A well-made disco ball of a book — it’s big, discursive, ardent, intellectual and flecked with gossip ... Romano, who worked at The Voice for eight years in its later stages, clearly asked good questions, and she has a snappy sense of conversational rhythm ... The tone of The Freaks Came Out to Write is a symphonic kind of anarchy.
A salacious oral history of the publication that reads like a night at a gossipy media party ... The book re-creates the feel of chatter in a newsroom.
Excellent ... I was fascinated and occasionally shocked ... Romano’s massive oral history weaves hundreds of Voice voices into a work so addictive that you wish more authors would tackle the form ... Romano lucidly tracks the changes of ownership and the ungodly number of editors in chief ... Its chief virtue is the raucous interplay of speakers, their mix of nostalgia, bravado, and prejudice. The juxtaposition is wizardly, often humorous, sometimes devastating.
