"An entertaining and passionate lament...In years to come, literary historians 
may look back on this manifesto and realise this was the moment at which, like the 
boy in the fairy tale, someone dared to say out loud that the emperor had no clothes."
								The (London) Observer


"No one will remember this article in a year . . . " 
				Michael Dirda, The Washington Post


"Useful mischief...he's got the big stuff right." 
				Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post


"Brilliantly written." 
		The Times of London


". . . sort of smart but definitely annoying."
			Gerald Howard, editor, Doubleday


"A welcome contrarian take on the state of contemporary American literary prose."
									Wall Street Journal


"Myers is the loudest proponent of phony populism who has appeared in some time."
						Lee Siegel, The Los Angeles Times


"B.R. Myers in June accomplished what no Los Angeles Times book reviewer has 
done in years -- writing an essay about modern fiction that made people around the country think . . ."
							The Los Angeles Examiner