"An eclectic collection."—Kirkus
"Combining thoughtful essays, imaginative interviews, aphorisms, and more, this book not only gives readers a vibrant and dizzying array of nonfiction forms, but also provides new and exciting ways to view the genre’s possibilities as a whole."—Rumpus
"This book is a remarkable look at the transformative and thrilling sounds the essay can make when given the chance to play as many different instruments as possible."—Christopher John Stephens, Pop Matters
"A wild and strangely endearing ride through Lazar's life, mind, and relationships."—Vivian Wagner, Brevity
“David Lazar asks to be known and seen, as Montaigne asked to be known and seen in his Essais. . . .This collection is a weird and wonderful conglomeration of form that invites the reader to ruminate with a brilliant and savvy mind. . . . There is no posturing here, but a sophisticated sifting through of moments, memories and the relationships that comprise a single life, thoughtfully engaged with the world, reflecting much more than its own singularity.”—Angela Pelster-Wiebe, author of Limber
“Traditional aphorisms are stand-alone wisecracks, but David Lazar’s are more like stairs up into a strange isolation or down into the stranger isolation of our community with each other—‘The bliss of opening the door and finding no one there.’ They are an ultraviolet that illuminates without lightening; they are genially at home in the dark. Exhilarating and unpredictable reading.”—James Richardson, author of During and By the Numbers: Poems and Aphorisms
“In David Lazar’s essays, the ostensible subjects become mindstream explorations in which music and memory dance to the intimate mysteries of human love and longing.”—Lawrence Sutin, author of A Postcard Memoir and Jack and Rochelle
