Testimony

Jack Pulaski has his turf, and the talent to work it. -Andrei Codrescu

Get the book and read it. And then shower copies on everyone you know who still enjoys moving his or her eyes from left to right. -Sven Birkerts

Pulaski has a gift for combining the lyrical with the earthy. -NY Times Book Review

Jack Pulaski writes convincingly about so many different cultures it is hard to pigeonhole him. He looks at life through the eyes of Jews, Italians and Puerto Ricans, each change of heart and mind as believable as the one that preceded it. -Chicago Tribune

Pulaski has the language to capture the moment you are swept up by and into, giving you the clamorous, surreal dream that comes with being alive and knowing it. -Milwaukee Journal

The writing is dense, sensual, often hilarious and entirely confident; the characters are real, with sights, sounds, and smells crowding the page. -The Seattle Times

... each story, each sentence ... are so written; by which I mean that one is constantly aware of, admiring of, awestricken sometimes by the power and variety of language, and by the craft exhibited here ... This is prose as dense, evocative, and multi-referential as poetry. -Alice Bloom, Hudson Review

Mr. Pulaski is a wonderful American storyteller. His real American characters: Russian-Jewish boys, Hispanic girls are us, this nation, from their skin on through to their souls. His tales, his book, the work that is to come, make up an abundance of funny and moving moments on the page that I do not hesitate to call a national treasure. -Frederick Busch