1998.6 - Reviews

"...a superb inside job, a sublime theft rendering aggression and devotion, necrophilia and hagiography quite indistinguishable."

—electronic book review

"Roberson takes a big risk in holding a mirror up to his most likely readers, current and former English major/grad students, instead of winging out with a fantasy of escape like Sukenick....Roberson meets the risk, however, with unresting comic energy, a verbal playfulness as entertaining as Sukenick's, and also, whenever he chooses, gripping insights into his characters, female as well as male."

—Flashpoint

"Authors trained outside of school, like Kurt Vonnegut, sometimes regret that today's students are exposed to nothing more than love and death in the English Department. 1998.6 proves different, showing how matters inside the Department, at least for grad students, simply focus much larger (and otherwise disorganized) forces in their lives."

—American Book Review