"[A] brilliant polyphony of literary innovation and social commentary. . . . Corin immerses [her readers] into the beautiful, brilliant madness of consciousness-forward fiction driven by a worthy protagonist, a timely reminder of what the novel can do in the hands of a skilled and fearless writer."--The Rupture

"Hypnotic. . . . Corin conveys a sense that insanity is everywhere."--The New Yorker

"Corin's novel unveils the madness that permeates society by scrutinizing trauma, cultural expectations, and the political and economic climate of the twenty-first century."--Booklist

"Delightfully askew, Corin's work offers a memorable exploration of how a loved one's mental illness can impact an individual's outlook."--Publishers Weekly

"Vivid, turbulent, intense, The Swank Hotel affirms, blow-by-blow, our loneliness, madness, and longing for a place to settle down. Lucy Corin's promiscuous gaze illuminates the impossibility of repairing the breakdown by rebuilding the house from the outside in rather than from the inside out."--Rikki Ducornet

"With love, brilliance, humor, and weird wild energy, Lucy Corin has written a perfect story of death and rebirth, of sisters, mothers, lovers, of madness, of a broken, rocky modern world. No one writes like her. No one could. Every page of The Swank Hotel is hilarious, heartbreaking, strange. To follow Em and Ad, and the other radiant characters in this novel, is to follow Jane Bowles straight into the future."--Deb Olin Unferth