Uncle Ovid's Exercise Book - Reviews

"[These] metamorphoses are bright, quick, certain, and unfailingly demonic … Webb's stylistic virtuosity is amazing both in the sureness of his parodies and homage's and in the extraordinary resolution he manages in imagery and story throughout the book. It is a strange, funny, frightening wonder, a Saturday kid's show for grownups."

- Michael Anania, 1988 Contest Judge

"Uncle Ovid's Exercise Book is a lively Book of the Dead for the 1990s, chanted by a chorus of uniquely demented voices. Imagine Sir James George Frazier meeting William S. Burroughs and H.P. Lovecraft for a quick round of musical whoopee cushions. Don Webb's wit, erudition, and imagination seem to have no limits as he pulls (at least) 97 different rabbits out of a single hat. He creates entire worlds with a few luminous details, then shatters them to glittering fragments. I wish I could write this well."

- Lewis Shiner, Author of Deserted Cities of the Heart