Praise for On Browsing
Browsing is many things: a lifestyle, a relaxation, a revelation if your search finds a long-sought book or a rare recording, and perhaps more importantly a soul-refreshing excursion in a world of instant online search-and-buy options.
-Winnipeg Free Press
'Our choices are chisels,' says Jason Guriel. This moving book will fill you with a good kind of sadness and help you understand your own nostalgias.
-Nicholson Baker, author of The Mezzanine
A mall parking lot, a defunct record store, the lingering crease on a book cover-across the all-flattening boundary of the digital age, Guriel recalls what it meant to access the universal one particular, physical piece at a time.
-Tom Scocca, author of Beijing Welcomes You: Unveiling the Capital City of the Future
Praise for Forgotten Work
A futuristic dystopian rock novel in rhymed couplets, this rollicking book is as unlikely, audacious and ingenious as the premise suggests.
-New York Times
A wondrous novel.
-Ron Charles, Washington Post
What do you get when you throw John Shade, Nick Drake, Don Juan, Sarah Records, and Philip K. Dick into a rhymed couplet machine? Equal parts memory and forgetting, detritus and elegy, imagination and fancy, Forgotten Work could be the most singular novel-in-verse since Vikram Seth's The Golden Gate. Thanks to Jason Guriel's dexterity in metaphor-making, I found myself stopping and rereading every five lines or so, to affirm my surprise and delight.
-Stephen Metcalf
This book has no business being as good as it is. Heroic couplets in the twenty-first century? It's not a promising idea, but Forgotten Work is intelligent, fluent, funny, and wholly original. I can't believe it exists.
-Christian Wiman
