"Reading Dan Baltic's NUTCRANKR was an experience of profound discomfort. My guts oscillated wildly between churning with perverse mirth and twisting with recognizable anguish. This novel is The Sorrows of Young Werther for the Internet age. Baltic's protagonist Spencer Grunhauer is a deluded, conniving headcase, but one full of pathos given that he lives in a world where 'normalcy' is polycules, communist beatdown squads, and sadomasochism. A send-up of our hyper-political age, wherein the very online politics of the left and right are correctly derided, NUTCRANKR is a profound and I dare say lasting testament to the chaos of the interesting times that we find ourselves in." - Arbogast, author of The Shanghai Horror

"Dan Baltic has written the Don Quixote of the digital era. Spencer Grunhauer is a man out of time, adhering to the martial values and lofty language of a bygone era. He can't quite get the world around him to conform to the model of how he believes things should be. Maybe he needs to log off, go outside, and touch grass, but every time he does, he tilts at modern windmills (like pussy hats) and hilarity ensures, always with him as the punchline. He's hardly fazed, however, for it's all part of his "Project," a Zarathustrean plan to transvaluate the depraved values of our world and usher in a new era of the Übermensch. The way Baltic pulls this off, by contrasting the ideals within Spencer's head and the reality of the feminist world around him, is truly an impressive literary feat, and the fact that he keeps it consistently laugh-out-loud funny puts NUTCRANKR in very elite company with the likes of Pynchon and David Foster Wallace. If you think I'm being hyperbolic, read it and see for yourself. If you're anything like me, you won't stop laughing." - Astral, host of Astral Flight Simulation

"Biting and funny. Finely wrought political satire." - Caleb Caudell, author of The Neighbor

"Dan weaves together a seamless narrative of self-imposed tragedy and ironic comedy. The online right will hate Spencer Grunhauer and at the same time worry that he represents them." - T.R. Hudson, author of Automaton

"Dan Baltic mogs the discourse with an uproarious gutshot for every self-important pseudo-intellectual. A relentless, hilarious book." - Brad Kelly, author of House of Sleep, co-host of Art of Darkness

"Dan Baltic's NUTCRANKR is both an unflinching presentation of a deeply deluded, yet pitiable narcissist, and a devastating critique of the 'deradicalization' racket. And just when you think you know exactly where it's headed, its twist ending leaves you stunned and bewildered." - Andy Nowicki, author of The Columbine Pilgrim and Muze

"Dan Baltic reincarnates Ignatius J. Reilly in 2010's Brooklyn-in the perfect storm of elite overproduction, anti-whiteness, and the digitized sex economy-to riotous success. A glorious victory in the quest to reclaim the literary holy land from the heathen." - Matthew Pegas, author of Dragon Day, co-host of New Write

"Dan Baltic has well and truly written a novel for our time. Absurd and mundane, epic yet also very profane, NUTCRANKR captures perfectly, with great wit and humanity, the agony and the ecstasy of this strange moment we find ourselves thrown into. You will laugh and you will cry, and maybe-just maybe-you'll recognise somebody you know, even yourself, in the pages of this book." - Raw Egg Nationalist, author of The Eggs Benedict Option and Raw Egg Nationalism