“Street of No Return was written after Goodis returned from Hollywood, and it shows a cinematic influence on his style, particularly on his visual descriptions. The dialogue is as sparkling as ever. . . .”—Los Angeles Review of…
“In these…brilliant stories, we observe his growing understanding of what he would later call the mystery of art, grounded, as it must be, in an ever-deepening comprehension of the infinitely…challenging mysteries of human…
“A surprise awaits those who think of Emerson only as an essayist… For a personal close-up of a public man, here are evidences of eros, mourning and celebration.”— Christian Century
“A great galloping madman of a novel, drenched in sound and color.”—Harlan Ellison
“Lafferty has the power which sets fires behind your eyeballs. There is warmth, illumination, and a certain joy attendant upon the…
“Here’s the heart of the heart of where those who take American science fiction seriously would want to begin—the genre’s equivalent of Hollywood’s classical period, and the books subsequent creators like Thomas Pynchon and Stanley Kubrick…
“It took me nearly a dozen years of rummaging through used bookstores in numerous states to find all six of the original Prejudices volumes. Now The Library of America edition brings these works back to life.”—John Lippman, Los…