It Feels So Good When I Stop

""One can accept, reluctantly, Pernice's apparently inexhaustible ability to knock out brilliant three-minute pop songs-Just about any Pernice Brothers record contains half a dozen tunes comparable to Elvis Costello's best work. But now it turns out he can write fiction too, and so envy and bitterness become unavoidable."" -Nick Hornby, The Believer ""Observed with impeccable clarity, It Feels So Good When I Stop is a very funny, profoundly human novel, perfectly attuned to the quotidian grotesque of 21st-century America."" -William Gibson, author of Spook Country ""If Charles Bukowski had grown up in the eighties and listened to a lot of indie rock, he might have sounded a lot like Joe Pernice. It Feels So Good When I Stop is a hard-boiled slacker chronicle of heartbreak and self-renewal, as smart as it is funny, written in one of the most arresting voices I've come across in a long time."" -Tom Perrotta, author of Little Children and The Abstinence Teacher ""A hilarious, moving and deep novel...Joe Pernice tells it true."" -George Pelecanos, author of Drama City and The Night Gardener ""Quite a remarkable piece of writing. Acidic, profane and easily one of the most lethal and unrelentingly hilarious books that I have ever read."" -Jonathan Poneman, President of Sub Pop Records ""The best messed up love song you'll ever read."" -Dan Palladino and Amy Sherman-Palladino, creators of The Gilmore Girls