L. J. Davis was an author and prize-winning journalist who has contributed to The New York Times, Mother Jones, and Harper's, among other publications. Jonathan Lethem is the author of seven novels, including Motherless Brooklyn and The Fortress of Solitude. He lives in Brooklyn and in Maine.
He has an erring sense of timing, of taste, of restraint. He has written some truly marvelous passages about New York. He has an absolute eye for the telling detail...An author who is clearly capable, funny at the proper times, both brutally and cheerfully perceptive. - The New York Times <br>A novel that has the authentically crazy tintinnabulation of our times...Mr. Blandings in a situation comedy by Kafka. - Book World <br> [Davis] has a fine comic gift; a clear-eyed view of those who imagine that mere accumulation is life itself. -Paula Fox <br> Davis is seen by some as a kind of Evelyn Waugh of the American urban crisis. - The Washington Post