" "20 Lines a Day" might be considered an exercise in constrictive form.... Though written in the self-preoccupied, matter-of-fact voice of everyday mulling, it has the irony and symmetry of a parable." --?San Francisco Chronicle

"I cannot express the extent of my admiration for Harry Mathews, which is well-nigh evangelical. There are now, here and there, other zephyrs blowing--John Barth, Susan Sontag, Donald Barthelme, Thomas Pynchon--but none so strong as this." --?Thomas Disch

"Despite the fact that these lines are exercises, they are more than simple jottings. They offer the reflections of genius; they will be read (and reread) for more than one day, for more than one year. They are 'lasting.'" --?Irving Malin, "Hollins Critic"

""20 Lines a Day" might be considered an exercise in constrictive form.... Though written in the self-preoccupied, matter-of-fact voice of everyday mulling, it has the irony and symmetry of a parable." --?San Francisco Chronicle