"[A] playful melange of erotic black comedy and domestic pathos, dysfunctional families and all-too-functional men, dictators and lumberjacks. Weissman is an expert juggler of tone . . ."

-Los Angeles Times

"Headless is at play in the world. It is fearless, fun, and sometimes filthy. Weissman invites you into an alphabet soup of delight in language. Eat up."

-Alice Sebold, author of The Lovely Bones

"Brilliant. Wildly inventive, profane, and hilarious. Benjamin Weissman is a master stylist who in story after story keeps scoring effortlessly. Beneath the deadpan absurdity these virtuoso comic monologues describe-with more intense accuracy than just about anyone else around-what it means to be male."

-Bret Easton Ellis, author of Glamorama

"Bizarre, inventive, and surprising, Weissman's stories frolic in the murkier regions of our psyches and daily habits with skilled verbal turns and unflinching wit."

-Lydia Davis, author of Almost No Memory

"[S]urprising, rollicking and clever . . . What makes these stories exciting . . . is Weissman's zesty, original use of language and his unflinching approach to describing human truths, especially the awkward, bizarre or undesirable ones . . . [T]ruly original stories."

-Publishers Weekly

"Weissman is an impishly audacious writer, and that's reason enough to love Headless, his new collection of short stories."

-San Francisco Chronicle

"[S]weaty and lusty, spiked and coiling with slang, colloquialisms and a touch of jockish bravado."

-LA Weekly

"Headless is a book so brilliant that I'll end up buying it for five friends . . ."

-XLR8R

"Weissman's prose style is truly daring, and his experiments in form and voice are refreshingly original."

-Rain Taxi Review of Books

"Like a much more profane David Sedaris, Weissman exposes the absurdity of our lives by roughly holding our faces up to simple human truths."

-Instinct Magazine