Comments from the initial printing of Weinstock:

“What is it like to go on a dangerous journey with a guide who is unafraid – unafraid of feeling, unafraid of revelation, fearless in the face of death and the threat, even, of Harvard? It is bliss. . . . I reveled in this novel: in its courage and its tenacity and its wit and its revelations and above all in the sense of the person who speaks to us through its threadbare mask. All honor to this author.” – Leslie Epstein

“Weinstock Among the Dying is compelling, psychologically subtle and knowing, at times quite sad, at other times wonderfully funny; a bold satire of 20^th-century secular academic life, and represents a graceful move to prose for the accomplished poet Michael Blumenthal.” – Robert Coles

”A first-rate work of fiction . . . . There is a keen authorial intelligence at work in every paragraph of this book, a seriousness of purpose that succeeds at multiple aesthetic levels. Michael Blumenthal is an absolutely splendid writer, and Weinstock Among the Dying is one of the best first novels I’ve ever read.” – Tim O’Brien

“Michael Blumenthal’s fine novel is possessed of a rebel’s mordancy: if Philip Roth had written Death in a Tenured Position, Weinstock Among the Dying would be that dark and witty book.” – Lorrie Moore