Adventure Quote by Megan Abbott

When I first read Helen Weinzweig's 'Basic Black with Pearls' several years ago, I emerged in the sort of daze that happens when a…

— Sarah Weinman

Good writing and dark wit always excite me and they come together thrillingly in this book. It has a quiet grip on the strangeness…

— Jenny Diski

“What this amounts to, and what makes the critic with his nose for genre and structure so nervous, is that by all accounts this…

— Edward Whittemore

“Our great novelists, though experts on indignity and assault, on loneliness and terror, tend to avoid treating the passionate encounter of a man and…

— Leslie Fiedler

What is a novel if not a conviction of our fellow men's existence strong enough to take upon itself a form of imagined life…

— Joseph Conrad

“But she had a lively acquaintaince with confinement through the works of women novelists, especially those of the unmarried ones.”

— Stella Gibbons

Writers of feminist dystopian fiction are alert to the realities that grind down women's lives, that make the unthinkable suddenly thinkable.

— Naomi Alderman

“A skeptic of all sentimentality, she has a witty, rueful voice that gives a deadpan appraisal of the past and present. We see the…

— Ron Charles

History is bright and fiction dull with homely men who have charmed women.

— O. Henry

“A fiction writer weaves a fabric of lies in hopes of revealing deeper human truths.”

— Wally Lamb

“Yet the Narrator’s quest is not only for his own identity and vocation. He seeks an understanding of art, sexuality and worldly and political…

— Adam A. Watt

“Growing up, women were not the mystery—I knew how they worked, or thought I did. Men were the mystery, obscure in their violences and…

— Kenji Yoshino