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Selected Press "Nearly every one of Castro’s acerbic, unfiltered paragraphs contains a bristling insight about literature, weight lifting, or academic politics." - The New Yorker "For all the chat about male novelists being an endangered species, Castro proves there are still some fine examples around." - GQ Bookforum The Brooklyn Rail Vulture The Atlantic First Things Dirt Selected Interviews The Bret Easton Ellis Podcast The Brooklyn Rail Public Parking The Free Press Zona Motel Wisdom of Crowds The Internet is Dead Blurbs... “Muscle Man is a triumph. Jordan Castro is an outrageously gifted novelist who has given us a truly original fable of the contemporary moment. Everything in this novel is feral and brilliant, and dizzyingly funny. Castro is one-of-one, and this book is pure heat.” — Brandon Taylor, author of The Late Americans "A strong stark novel that the few men who do read, must read. But women are also more than welcome, as is everyone with a heart." — Joshua Cohen, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Netanyahus "Jordan Castro's hilarious and astonishing new novel discovers in the insane condition of higher education surprising symptoms of the human condition." — Michael Clune, author of Pan "Muscle Man is a brilliant disquisition on violence, resentment, victims, and Nietzschean bodybuilders in American academia, told with the obsessive crankiness of Thomas Bernhard, acute absurdity of Donald Antrim, and a vivid linguistic hilarity all Castro’s own. Made me want to feel the pump." — Lexi Freiman, author of The Book of Ayn |
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