Long Talking Bad Conditions Blues - Reviews

"Sukenick's prose style is fast, nervy, exciting, like Mailer and even Kerouac at their best."

- Southern Humanities Review

"A kind of cross between the Sterne of Tristram Shandy and the Thomas Pynchon of V (and for my money more readable than Pynchon), Sukenick combines fantasy and parody and satire brilliantly."

-Houston Post

"The finest new fictionists - Sukenick, Kosinski, Reed, Gardner, and Barthelme - have produced fictive veils which insist both that the world can only be known through the imagination, and also certainly that it must be known."

-Jay Martin

"There is obviously a very accomplished writer at play-work here … What Sukenick is after is … the way into some 'secret language,' which will open up old magics and new possibilities not currently inscribed in out texts."

-Tony Tanner

"Quick now, read him before he invents again!"

-New York Times Book Review