Passionate Spectator

Praise for Eric Kraft:

"Lovely...we're hooked. Kraft's erudite asides and abstract musings are what make Inflating a Dog fascinating and sophisticated reading."

- The New York Times Book Review

"Having trouble reading Proust? Forget it. Read Eric Kraft instead...the eight volumes of Kraft's fictional memoirs...constitute perhaps the most ambitious and rewarding literary enterprise of our time."

- San Francisco Chronicle

"Charming but never sappy, droll but never cynical...the literary equivalent of Fred Astaire dancing: great art that looks like fun."

- Malcolm Jones, Newsweek

"A sunny, upbeat American version of the Argentine fabulist Jorge Luis Borges...A masterful tale teller."

- Mark Ciabattari, Washington Post Book World

"Is there a more beguiling writer today than Eric Kraft?"

- Publishers Weekly

"The only American author since Pynchon to completely erase the line between the literary novel and the spit-out-your coffee comedy."

- Andrew Ervin, The Washington Post