Reviews
"Michaels, best known as the front man for the band Operation Ivy, creates a unique narrative voice."-- Kirkus "Jesse Michaels' debut novel is a unique and side-splitting performance, punctuated by a whip smart narrative and magnetic prose. A dizzying combination of Flann O'Brien's The Third Policeman and Kurt Vonnegut, if he were a hostile agoraphobic, Whispering Bodies is an unreasonably funny work. It's Mitch Hedberg, it's Franz Kafka, it's none of the above. A post-everything romp of delicious absurdity." --Alex Green, Caught in the Carousel "Jesse Michaels' Whispering Bodies is the first book I couldn't put down in a long time. In Roy Belkin. Michaels' has given us one of the most memorable protagonists in recent fiction--shades of a 21st Century Ignatius J. Reilly--but ultimately wholly original as he stumbles his misanthropic yet, at times, oddly hopeful way through the world. A great book." - Rob Roberge, author of The Cost of Living "How this guy, this guy who comes out of nowhere, this 'Michaels,' could turn something out like this -- I'm speechless. Absolutely shitting right now. It's like there is finally a book. " --Albert Deasely, Enchantment "A perverse, inventive, and unremittingly funny debut novel that ingeniously marries John Kennedy Toole to Raymond Chandler." --Patrick deWitt, Ablutions and The Sisters Brothers, "Michaels, best known as the front man for the band Operation Ivy, creates a unique narrative voice."— Kirkus "Jesse Michaels' debut novel is a unique and side-splitting performance, punctuated by a whip smart narrative and magnetic prose. A dizzying combination of Flann O'Brien's The Third Policeman and Kurt Vonnegut, if he were a hostile agoraphobic, Whispering Bodies is an unreasonably funny work. It's Mitch Hedberg, it's Franz Kafka, it's none of the above. A post-everything romp of delicious absurdity." —Alex Green, Caught in the Carousel "Jesse Michaels' Whispering Bodies is the first book I couldn't put down in a long time. In Roy Belkin. Michaels' has given us one of the most memorable protagonists in recent fiction—shades of a 21st Century Ignatius J. Reilly—but ultimately wholly original as he stumbles his misanthropic yet, at times, oddly hopeful way through the world. A great book." - Rob Roberge, author of The Cost of Living "How this guy, this guy who comes out of nowhere, this 'Michaels,' could turn something out like this — I'm speechless. Absolutely shitting right now. It's like there is finally a book. " —Albert Deasely, Enchantment "A perverse, inventive, and unremittingly funny debut novel that ingeniously marries John Kennedy Toole to Raymond Chandler." —Patrick deWitt, Ablutions and The Sisters Brothers, "Michaels, best known as the front man for the band Operation Ivy, creates a unique narrative voice."-- Kirkus "Jesse Michaels' debut novel is a unique and side-splitting performance, punctuated by a whip smart narrative and magnetic prose. A dizzying combination of Flann O'Brien's The Third Policeman and Kurt Vonnegut, if he were a hostile agoraphobic, Whispering Bodies is an unreasonably funny work. It's Mitch Hedberg, it's Franz Kafka, it's none of the above. A post-everything romp of delicious absurdity." --Alex Green, Caught in the Carousel "How this guy, this guy who comes out of nowhere, this 'Michaels,' could turn something out like this -- I'm speechless. Absolutely shitting right now. It's like there is finally a book. " --Albert Deasely, Enchantment "A perverse, inventive, and unremittingly funny debut novel that ingeniously marries John Kennedy Toole to Raymond Chandler." --Patrick deWitt, Ablutions and The Sisters Brothers
