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Dick, part Three Stooges." -Robert Glick, American Book Review, March-April 2010 "Smoke is actually a pleasure to read.

We profit from Smoke's uncontained, comic dystopia-part X-Files, part Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, part Franz Kafka, part Philip K. Cheers, to It.” -Jared Schickling, author of O Praise for Smoke: ".These hallucinatory acts performed by metafictive narrators in the name of solving a state-manufactured mystery may not enlighten Smoke's psychically crippled characters, but they do give the reader a good deal of narrative pleasure. Reader, we’re under the microscope, and there's so much more to this book. The motion of the text is centrifugal, its voyeurs anticipating the arrival of things within the sprawling hallucinations and machinations of individual or collective memories, ripened in the bathrooms of unfolding constellations and recorded for TV. In So It Seams, his second novel, an unidentifiable ‘interstellar medium,’ or ‘Ism,’ looms over the fate of the Onunghorreatawatawama, a local river we could never pronounce. and quantum physics and a healthy dose of gastronomic preference a nuclear-sonar-tech-turned-journalist-bracketing Buffalo and Greenpeace, the range of Chuck Richardson astounds me. Dear reader, you're in for a treat.” -Jefferson Hansen, author of Beefheart Saved Craig “Chuck Richardson is a necessary American writer: Kafka’s disturbed humor postmodern esemplastic axes and paradoxes Taoist humility of Hindu-Buddhist warfare mentality Black Elk’s quest for his siblings Castaneda’s sexual appeal the grotesque Thomism of Flannery O’Connor Marquez Grace Paley A.P.E.S. What's more, it all happens within a narrative of extraordinary energy. You will meet a dog named Certitude and an environmental activist named Irena-Delores Farfrankenheirmerzen-Dauphinheifer Jesus Segundo, a member of a street gang, and Aunt Elizabeth Bullfinch who owns too much stuff for your own good and many, many more. Praise for So It Seams “Chuck Richardson is a master craftsman whose magnificent, long, looping sentences, in their whipping and flitting about, present a world populated by obsessive characters whose absurd deeds never seem to end.