Atticus Lish is a true original and this is a tremendous book, relentless, moving, written in prose of marvelous integrity. Now that America and the novel are dead, I hope we can have more great American novels as alive as this one.

I'm a citizen of the republic of empathy.

This country was built on the backs of dudes who drank on buses. What we do honors them.

The bullshit never ends. That’s the main thing to remember. It never ends.

Kamby Bolongo Mean River is an original and fearless fiction. It bears genetic traces of Beckett and Stein, but Robert Lopez's powerful cadences and bleak, joyful wit are all his own.

Art is an artifice that you try to make seem natural.

You think you know yourself, the world. You believe you've got a bead on everybody else's bullshit, but what about your own?