""American Mischief" should be read as a companion piece to, if not the equal of, "Mr. Sammler s Planet." It is a map, charted with intelligence, lit by vitality, of America s ailments." Mordecai Richler, "Chicago Tribune"" "A report from the Ivy Lower Depths by an extraordinary new writer. . . . It isn t just real life that has changed but imagination itself, the kinds of myths a generation wants and believes. And Mr. Lelchuk has produced a whole mythology, a book of beasts, that anatomizes the new imagination with bloodcurdling fidelity." Wilfrid Sheed" "No novelist has written with such knowledge and eloquence of the consequences of carnal passion in Massachusetts since The Scarlet Letter." Philip Roth, "Esquire""
Alan Lelchuk was born and raised in Brooklyn. He is author of the novels "Brooklyn Boy," recently reprinted by the University of Wisconsin Press, "On Home Ground," "Shrinking," "Miriam at Thirty-four," "Miriam in Her Forties," and "Playing the Game." He is on the faculty of Dartmouth College and is cofounder of Steerforth Press. His newest book is "Ziff: A Life?"