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.
Raucous ... Unfolds like the kind of epic, many-roomed party that invokes the spirit of other parties and their immortal ghosts ... Most chapters offer an inside history of familiar events.
