"Stories like 'The Best-Known Man in the World' and 'The Circus Hand's Desertion' display not only Dan Pearlman's marvelous sense of intellectual play, but his mischevious sense of humor. Pearlman's gift is the ability to tease the reader into accepting as normal, points of view distinctly different from our own. From first to last, the stories entertain on levels both cerebral and bawdy; I can think of no higher praise."
--Jeff VanderMeer, World Fantasy Award winner

"Dan Pearlman's writing presents us with a rare multiplicity of unique voices. His unforgettable characters continue to whisper in the reader's ear long after the final page is turned. By turns metaphysical and scatalogical, his intricately constructed stories are postmodern parables, as well as being plain damn funny."
--Paul DiFilippo, author of Last Pages