Summary and Reviews of The Muse Asylum by David Czuchlewski

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Kirkus Reviews Czuchlewski keeps us guessing throughout an elegantly crafted psychological thriller in which this first-time novelist also manages the notoriously difficult feat of summarizing Horace Jacob Little's (Dantesque and Borgesian) short stories and novels in a manner that convinces us they're the products of a strange, possibly insane genius. And there's a stunning final turn of the screw in the closing pages. A fabulous debut. Look for big things from this new writer. He's the genuine article.

Kirkus Reviews Czuchlewski keeps us guessing throughout an elegantly crafted psychological thriller in which this first-time novelist also manages the notoriously difficult feat of summarizing Horace Jacob Little's (Dantesque and Borgesian) short stories and novels in a manner that convinces us they're the products of a strange, possibly insane genius. And there's a stunning final turn of the screw in the closing pages. A fabulous debut. Look for big things from this new writer. He's the genuine article.

Publishers Weekly Genius and madness blur in a daring, self-consciously literary debut that runs circles around the postmodern chestnut, the death of the author, to speculate on the murderous theft of an author's identity.....[T]he novel is well plotted, with nuanced characters and real intellectual heft. Czuchlewski is a writer to watch.

Publishers Weekly Genius and madness blur in a daring, self-consciously literary debut that runs circles around the postmodern chestnut, the death of the author, to speculate on the murderous theft of an author's identity.....[T]he novel is well plotted, with nuanced characters and real intellectual heft. Czuchlewski is a writer to watch.

 Joyce Carol Oates The Muse Asylum is an ingeniously plotted postmodernist mystery that introduces a young writer of exceptional gifts. David Czuchlewski writes with imagination, vision, and style.