Close Your Eyes and Think of Dublin- Reviews

"Kathryn Thompson's writing is what I'd imagined a truly postmodern, feminist writing would be - witty, brilliant, risky, powerful, enagaging - informing and reforming the conventions of narrative by infusing it with an immensely pleasurable and slyly instructive female subjectivity. Thompson's ear is so fine we not only hear the laugh of the Medusa, we hear ourselves laughing with her."

-Valerie Ross, Editor-in-Chief of The Cream City Review

"Stand back! Here comes the newest dominatrix of postmodern fiction. Her prose in Close Your Eyes and Think of Dublin: Portrait of a Girl is a strung-out sizzling cybernetic wire, jerking and twitching with monstrous voodoo energy, like some indomitable athlete fed on deconstruction and Dexedrine come alive in words. It is an attenuated howl of pure feminine lust and anger disciplined by real intelligence. This is a beautiful terror of a first novel."

-David Porush, author of The Soft Machine: Cybernetic and Rope Dances

"At last, a woman to rival Joyce's style and Barth's playfulness, a new writer whose dazzling prose illuminates the real world of family, love, and growing up. This novel will touch you and infuriate you while at all times reaffirming what the art of fiction really is."

- John Clark Pratt, author of Vietnam Voices and The Laotian Fragments