“I liked John Haskell's American Purgatorio--that is to say, I liked its tone--from the first page; by page twenty I was completely in love with it and shortly after that I began to think that it might turn out to be a great book. At the same time, since it was so weird, such a high-wire act, I worried, briefly, that Haskell might blow it in some way. Such worries proved short-lived: American Purgatorio gets better and better. It is wildly original, wonderful, amazing, tender, heart-breaking. It's also--and this is remarkable in a book that is so funny--extremely wise. I was going to say your life will be improved by reading it but I think that gets things the wrong way round; your life will be impoverished if you don't.” —Geoff Dyer, author of Out of Sheer Rage

“In these wholly unique meditations on what it is to be human...Haskell makes the familiar his own--playing with language and history, turning time inside out, he delivers our culture back to us--made entirely new.” —A.M. Holmes with praise for I Am Not Jackson Pollock

“John Haskell's I am Not Jackson Pollock is a wonderfully intelligent, audacious and perverse collection of . . . what exactly? Fiction? Gossip? Film studies? Iconograph? Liberty taking? Here's a book that defies the usual categories -- but one thing's for sure, I savored every mythic, mesmerizing word of it.” —Jim Crace with praise for I Am Not Jackson Pollock

“Stunningly sophisticated stories in which everything is new.” —Susan Reynolds, Los Angeles Times with praise for I Am Not Jackson Pollock

“Dazzlingly inventive.” —Elle with praise for I Am Not Jackson Pollock

“The highly original, Hemingway-esque prose is just as colorful and provocative as Pollock's paintings.” —Karyn L. Barr, Entertainment Weekly with praise for I Am Not Jackson Pollock