"This book is filled with brilliant dialogue, unexpected turns, some very dirty talk with sudden bursts of hilarity, and then fierce sadness. It exudes dark energy. It is highly original. It gives pleasure on every page."
--Colm Tóibín, author of Brooklyn and Long Island

"Raucous, incisive and wholly original, the world of Volckmer's novel lays bare modern life's gross indignations, mordant desires and naked ambitions with wit and clarity."
--Eley Williams, author of Moderate to Poor, Occasionally Good

"Volckmer's prose is electric, and as she skillfully unearths moments of tenderness, even ecstasy, amid the sweat and stench of abjection, she ensures this brief book lingers past its pages. A raucous, gutting workplace novel."
--Kirkus Reviews

"Katharina Volckmer's jokes are always consequential, and her novel ends up saying much that is profound about work and isolation and capitalist estrangement."
--Lily Isaacs, Times Literary Supplement

"Consistently hilarious and surprising in its weirdness. This irreverent comedy will resonate with anyone who's toiled in a dead-end job."
--Publishers Weekly

"A wildly imaginative, deeply intransigent novel."
--Dan Kubis, The Brooklyn Rail

"Deeply funny, brazen, and then shockingly tender."
--Sam Franzini, Our Culture

"This book reminds us of why we love Volckmer. She is a true iconoclast. Her work is a hand grenade thrown against the falsities of good taste."
--Carlos Fonseca, author of Austral

"The writing is agile . . . the sub-text contains more social criticism than at first meets the eye. It's a truculent novel which takes full responsibility for itself."
--Vogue France

"Iconoclastic, derisive and scatological. It could have been puerile if it were not written so intelligently, with such perfection."
--Echo

"Katharina Volckmer has created an unforgettable, ultra-contemporary personality."
--Lire

"Calls May be Recorded further cements Volckmer's prowess as a comic writer. She has a remarkable ability to tread the line between audacity and brilliance. Refreshingly, she isn't afraid to be provocative with her jokes."
--Barry Pierce, Big Issue

"The author plunges her pen, as funny as it is fierce, into a perfect microcosm, containing all the vices of our sad modern world. It leaves behind stains and a nasty smell, but it bubbles with great spirit."
--Focus Vif

"High on slapstick and low on humanity, this novel will make you feel."
--The Irish Times

"The reader frequently giggles at this satire whose irreverence and sweet madness reminds us of Shalom Auslander."
--Libération

"A funny, acerbic, and filter-free portrait of the world of work and contemporary vacuities."
--Page

Praise for Katharina Volckmer:

"Katharina Volckmer is a wild new talent."
--Joshua Cohen

"Katharina Volckmer is a risk-taker of the first degree."
--Ian McEwan

"In a furious comic monologue to her gynecologist, the German-born narrator of this debut novel riffs on national shame, family secrets, sex and more with a disregard for propriety worthy of Alexander Portnoy."
--New York Times Book Review

"The most audacious novel I have read in years. It's both vagina monologue and virtuoso performance...horribly funny and shockingly good...if the best writing takes a risk, this is Russian roulette."
--Frances Wilson, Times Literary Supplement