Critical Praise

"What you might get if you crossed Bret Easton Ellis with Salman Rushdie. . . . Wenzel has an omnivorous, Tom Wolfean appetite for the city at all levels and a raking ability to sketch it all in howlingly funny, satirical ways."

——Kirkus Reviews

"Kyle Clayton, Kurt Wenzel's antihero in Lit Life and Gotham Tragic, is forever having difficulty following up on the promise of his first novel. Good to see the real-life author hasn't suffered likewise."

——Darren Everson, San Francisco Chronicle

"Sharp-eyed" book that manipulates its characters onto "a collision course where the book's financial inequities, literary ambitions, sexual betrayals and religious disparities finally explode."

——Janet Maslin, New York Times

"A cunningly written send-up of New York life that's both witty and unsettling....Gotham Tragic is a captivating read, mixing money, religion and greed." The reviewer goes on to praise Wenzel's characters, who "possess the rich details that come from close observation."

——USA Today