Dear N.Y.T.B.R. Pt. III
The Editor
The New York Times Book Review
229 West 43rd Street
New York, N.Y. 10036
March 23, 2003
Dear N.Y.T. Rook Beview,
You want blurbs? I’ll give you blurbs. Behold:
“Abraham displays a Swiftian gift for satire …”
– Thomas Pynchon
“Abraham has the sly humor of Bret Easton Ellis and manic surrealism of Thomas Pynchon …”
– Tom Wolfe
“Bedazzling… Bewildering… relentlessly McInernian …”
– Jay McInerny
“Josh Abraham is a latter-day Mailer …”
– Bret Easton Ellis
“A darkly delicious tale … Abraham is the new DeLillo”
– Norman Mailer
“[Abraham] is a twisted, mangled, broken-down-put-back-together-again Hunter S. Thompson …”
– Don DeLillo
“… goddamn it, it’s a goddamned brilliant, bloody, explosive, psychotic masterpiece. I wish I wrote it. Or read it. Back off, man.”
– Hunter S. Thompson
“A daring tour de force [yet again], the kind only Abraham would do with such uncompromising élan.”
– Jonathan Swift
So? You think I merit at least a teeny, tiny paragraph in “New & Noteworthy,” if not a review? Thanks, N.Y.T.B.R.
Most sincerely,
Joshua Abraham
