"A vivid portrait of life in the druggy demimonde of petty scams, aimless loafing erupting in sudden violence, and epic pharmaceutical hangovers." -PITTSBURGH POST-GAZETTE

"Ben Gwin writes like F. Scott Fitzgerald high on meth and Clean Time is The Great Gatsbyfor a generation that thinks fame is the answer to every question." -LORI JAKIELA, Portrait of the Artist as a Bingo Worker

"A nightmarish dispatch from America in the age of Donald Trump."
-DEREK GREEN, New World Order

"If Vladimir Nabokov, George Saunders, Denis Johnson, and Hunter S. Thompson were trapped in an elevator for a month, they might conceivably come up with a book as funny, frightening, and entertaining as this one."
-MICHAEL BYERS, The Coast of Good Intentions

"Read Clean Time. It is many things; dark, inventive, hallucinatory, funny as hell, but above all just hard to put down. And like all journeys worth taking, you won't always know where you're headed, but do so with Gwin and you will be rewarded for it."
-ADLAI YEOMANS, Owner, White Whale Bookstore

"Clean Time is an exuberant debut from novelist Ben Gwin, a satirical vision of the American nightmare that's a pure joy to read. Like a Nabokovian Eddie and the Cruisers, Gwin's novel goes in search of the missing Ronald Reagan, break-out star of The Recovery Channel's hit reality show Clean Time, and finds instead an America gone off its meds. Clean Time is a darkly comic odyssey through a land of serial killers, hipster poets, and Bob Seger."
-KRISTOFER COLLINS, Manager, Caliban Book Shop

"Clean Time is a meta novel so good it will end all meta novels, a satire so current it reads like a headline in The New York Times. Ben Gwin has dumped the prison memoir, the recovery memoir, the academic treatise, and an unscrupulous blast of reality TV into the literary blender and come up with something entirely new and entertaining and horrifying."
-DAVE NEWMAN, Please Don't Shoot Anyone Tonight