“The Pinch-for many years in the early 20th century a predominantly Jewish section of Memphis-has found its Whitman and its Faulkner in Stern, who's written a stylistically effusive, verbally extravagant novel. . . . Audacious, hilarious, unabashed fiction.” Kirkus Reviews on The Pinch
“Stern's stories are suffused with nostalgia for this lost world . . . Nothing goes unobserved.” The New York Times Book Review on The Book of Mischief
“Filled with pathos and humor . . . At its most poignant, Stern's writing . . . peels away at the membranes that divide the present from the past.” The New Republic on The Book of Mischief
“[A] wonderfully entertaining, inventive new novel . . . Laugh-out-loud funny, the sort of humor that takes you by surprise.” NPR on The Frozen Rabbi
“Packed to bursting with epic adventure and hysterical comedy, with grim poignancy and pointed satire . . . Stern embraces every outrageous possibility, in lush, cartwheeling sentences.” The Washington Post Book World on The Frozen Rabbi