— The Times-Picayune (New Orleans)
“It’s what every writer strives for — an event both surprising and inevitable. American Purgatorio is a serious, admirable novel, well worth reading.”
— Carolyn See, The Washington Post Book World
“An excellent first novel … [American Purgatorio] is a testament to Haskell’s awareness that life, like fiction, is both inherently mysterious and inherently too vivid, too strange, too marvelous not to keep wondering about.”
— Rain Taxi
“Haskell, whose short-story collection promised the raw wit of thirtysomething passive-aggressive lit, now proves that he can keep it going for the novel, adding mystery and kindness to his palette.”
— Los Angeles Times
“Haskell has written one of the most interesting, intricate, and intimately nuanced novels of the season.”
— Flaunt Magazine
“Extraordinary … Haskell has become one of the most fascinating new talents in American fiction.… The narrative abstractionist has ever-so-carefully metamorphosed into a gripping storyteller; the theatrical monologist has been transformed into a novelist, both richly familiar and, somehow, newly minted.”
— The Buffalo News
“It’s more and more evident that Haskell is a writer to keep an eye on, if only for his ability to mix the fantastic and realistic in strange, compelling, and humane ways.”
— Ruminator
About the Author
John Haskell is the author of the short-story collection I Am Not Jackson Pollock. His work has appeared in Granta, The Paris Review, Conjunctions, and Ploughshares. A contributor to the radio program The Next Big Thing, Haskell lives in Brooklyn, New York.