"America's greatest essayist." --Los Angeles Times

"These essays are classics of [the] genre. . . . Throughout Frazier writes with such charm, such self-deprecating introspection, we wish that we . . . could claim him as a friend." --The Boston Globe

"One of the best writers in America. Absorbed by people and their stories, endlessly curious, graced with an exquisite ear for the way people speak, addicted to dry humor, and unpretentious, he has become a master craftsman in the odd and lovely art of collecting and telling stories of American life." --The Oregonian

"Frazier has a keen eye for the vagaries of urban life." --Time Out New York

"[A] pleasing, humorous, but also keenly trenchant collection . . . freely mix[es] the ugly with the sublime, and the scary with the fascinating and the funny . . . It's also a lovely read." --The Christian Science Monitor

"A delight to follow on the page . . . And don't let the emphasis on New York City fool you. Frazier is one of us." --Chicago Sun-Times

"This is New York on a human level. Frazier obviously likes people; his empathy comes through." --Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

"The Big Apple never feels so small as when Ian Frazier writes about it." --Continental magazine.