BALTIMORE BOY
MAKES GOOD.
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ABOVE: Millard Kaufman, circa 1945, on Okinawa in his third year with the United States Marine Corps. That thing he's cradling is a Doberman puppy. If you have a heart, it is currently aflutter.
BELOW: Millard Kaufman, circa 2007, in the office where he wrote his
first novel, Bowl of Cherries.
Bowl of Cherries by Millard Kaufman is the latest from McSweeney's.
Across the country, critics are raving about this darkly comic debut
novel.
"Kaufman's screwball sensibility, relish for language, gleeful vulgarism and deep sympathy for his characters make this novel an unprecedented joyride."
Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"[Bowl of Cherries] is equal parts 'Catcher in the Rye' and 'Die
Hard.'"
REBECCA MEAD
The New Yorker
"[Bowl of Cherries] is a picaresque of inexhaustible comic invention." (Grade: A; EW Pick)
ADAM B. VARY
Entertainment Weekly
"Bowl of Cherries is the work of a writer unshackled."
GAVIN EDWARDS
Rolling Stone
"Millard Kaufman made the journey."
ROBERT J. HUGHES
Wall Street Journal
"Kaufman's comic imagination, his ability to mix things scatological and historical, political and philosophical, reminds one of those young'uns Kurt Vonnegut and Joseph Heller."
RON CHARLES
Washington Post
"Millard Kaufman writes like he swallowed some intense hallucinogens
and then a dictionary."
CHRISTOPHER BOLLEN
V Man magazine
"Ingeniously funny prose and imaginative storytelling."
STEPHEN DOUGHERTY
Interview magazine
"Baltimore boy makes good!"
LAURA VOZZELLA
Baltimore Sun
"Kaufman doesn't disappoint, and his narrative is infused with the
wisdom and whimsy such a résumé implies."
JOHN LEWIS
Baltimore magazine
"The ninety year old's inquisitiveness and tenacity shine brightly
within the novel, in which he weaves words more impressively than a
spider spins a web."
EVAN P. SCHNEIDER
Rocky Mountain Chronicle
"Kaufman is a hell of a writer. If the world is fair, Bowl of Cherries
will go down as one of the great satiric treatments of the current
ongoing conflict."
SUZANNE KLEID
The Writers' Block on KQED
"Kaufman seems to choose words with the utmost care, making his
moments of slapstick shenanigans all the more fun."
JASON KUIPER
Omaha World-Herald
"If they don't like it they can go fuck themselves."
MILLARD KAUFMAN SPEAKING WITH CONNOR KILPATRICK
New York magazine
"I don't know anything about websites. I bought a computer about a
year ago. I still don't know how to use it, it scares the hell out of
me."
MILLARD KAUFMAN SPEAKING WITH TEDDY WAYNE
Radar magazine
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To read the first chapter, click here.
To see and hear Kaufman in action, click here.
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