The Comatose Kids - Reviews

"An original feat of the imagination. It purifies through love for the human being."

—Bernard Malamud

"The book shines like something in the dark because Simckes is capable handling the most intimate human materials with extraordinary gentleness."

—John Hawkes

"Unique, wild, funny. It still haunts me."

—Clive Barnes, N.Y. Times

"Spooky, mystical, comic, a very good play, perhaps a great one."

—Dan Isaac, The New Leader

On his play, "The Ten Best Martyrs of the Year":

"A timeless profundity about it. The resonances are mythic. Extraordinarily strange, enlivened by all kinds of stylistic intrusions and an almost hysterical inventiveness."

—Michael Smith, Village Voice