Trophy Reviewed

It is time to embarrass our fiction editor, Michael: His new novel Trophy just garnered a starred review from Kirkus!

We’ve always thought of  Michael, the man, as “a quirky, imaginative, dazzling black comedy,” and much of the pleasure of having him around the office is due to his “word wizardry, his facile puns, his insight into the human heart, and his topsy-turvy sardonic approach [to everything]”—and that is why the bronze plaque affixed to his office door has, for years, read  Topsy-Turvy Pun Wizard of the Human Heart. We are glad that Kirkus has spotted all of these same qualities in his new novel too.

In celebration of Trophy—which will materialize as a physical object in the world next month—we commissioned our Resident Troubadour Don Peteroy to memorialize the event, and his own hair-loss issues, in song.