Praise for The Apple's Bruise

"There's a quality to the best literary fiction that I've come to call 'ominosity.' It's not a writers' workshop thing, like tension or conflict, nor what you feel reading a thriller or a detective story. It's not a mere mood, like noir. It's bigger, deeper, like an earthquake. Ominosity is a cultural tremor; it's in the pores of fiction, a kind of warning. Lisa Glatt...has got ominoisty."
—Susan Salter Reynolds, Los Angeles Times Book Review

"Dazzling, thrilling, and as full of shocking wonder as a snowstorm in the Sahara, Glatt's stories don't just push the literary envelope, they transform it in dangerously inventive ways. The things we can, can't or won't do for love, the way desire turns us into outlaws, and the steep cost of connection—it's all here, all hauntingly real, disturbingly funny,
and in a word: brilliant."
—Caroline Leavitt, author of Girls in Trouble and Coming Back To Me

"Lisa Glatt's stories are brave and ruthless and blessedly tender when they need to be. She writes about the mortifications of desire without playing to the balconies. Instead, she reveals shame and lust that
bubble hopefully inside all of us."
—Steve Almond, author of Candyfreak, My Life in Heavy Metal,
and The Evil B.B. Chow and Other Stories

"Glatt has a sharp eye for catching the incongruous detail that nicely derails her characters' tidy sense of themselves . . . .
Polished, taut writing we want more of."
—Kirkus Reviews

"[T]he language is so compelling and real . . . the stories deserve to be devoured. It's a testament to Glatt's talent as a writer and storyteller that even with material this dark you want to keep reading."
—The Miami Herald

"Funny and insightful."
—Publishers Weekly

"These stories are surprising and memorable, incisive and prescient in the way they challenge our values."
—Indiana Review

 

Praise for A Girl Becomes a Comma Like That

"An appealingly dark first novel . . . authentic, substantial and engaging."
—New York Times Book Review

“A Girl Becomes a Comma Like That adds an emphatic exclamation point to the start of a promising career.”
—Vanity Fair

“Smart and stylish . . . Lyrical and sophisticated.”
—San Francisco Chronicle

"[Glatt] dares to infuse dark humor where tear-jerking sentimentality would be easier. Sex and death are big and bold in her custody, the female body an enigma of pleasure, fertility and disease. Glatt balances so much so masterfully; it's a powerful debut."
—The San Diego Union-Tribune

“Weirdly romantic. Ferociously intelligent. Ridiculously well written and compulsively readable.”
—Daily Candy

“This novel may be a scream of pure pain, but its wisdom and touching examination of grace and instability under pressure are unforgettable.”
—The Miami Herald

“Glatt moves from protagonist to protagonist deftly, switching voices with ease.”
—Omaha World-Herald

“A talented writer.”
—The Boston Globe

“A Girl Becomes A Comma Like That is an accomplished, elegant, inky-black tragicomedy that raises gallows humor to a heartrending art form . . . . [T]his is a rare, bright, glass-cuttingly-sharp jewel of a book.”
—The Journal News

“Glatt fills her pages with women who are so complex and truthfully portrayed, you'll swear you know at least one of them. The end result is a haunting, unforgettable book that admirably manages to be both touching and shocking.”
—BUST

“Sad, yes, but also comic.”
—The Washington Post

“[An] edgy debut novel.”
—O Magazine

“Smart, funny, with a dark sensibility, this tight novel-in-stories marks the arrival of a bold new voice.”
—Amazon.com, Breakout Book: Summer 2004

“Heartbreaking and hilarious.”
—Press-Telegram

“Glatt's clear-eyed rendering of the complexities of relationships between friends and family enriches a story in which the steps toward healing are small and tentative, but moving nevertheless.”
—Publishers Weekly

“A less honest writer could mine only melodrama from the lives of these seemingly self-defeated women, but Glatt plays out the ordinary details of their lives with such unadorned authenticity that you can’t help but either find yourself in them or admire them.”
—LA Weekly

“A laugh out loud tearjerker.”
—Elle

“Fearless and deeply felt.”
—Rain Taxi