Richard "Dick" Kalich, novelist

"A major American Writer" - The Philadelphia Inquirer

 "THE NIHILESTHETE, Richard Kalich's first novel, is one of the most powerfully written books of the decade."
- San Francisco Chronicle

"THE NIHILESTHETE speaks with a singular honesty, power and eloquence about our spiritually diminished modern world and is as important and original a novel to have been written by an American author in a generation."
- Mid-American Review

"CHARLIE P is energetic, delightfully sardonic, dark without being oppresive, playful and very readable.
CHARLIE P captures the note of our late modern time."
- Sven Birkerts, National Book Critics Circle, Citation for Excellence in Reviewing

"CHARLIE P seems to me unlike anything in American literature. Deceptively simple, this novel offers up a character both asocial and alienated and, at the same time, at the heart of the American Dream."
- Brian Evenson, Director, Creative writing program, Brown University.
Author of the novels, THE FATHER OF LIES and THE OPEN CURTAIN.

"Kalich represents the best in contemporary fiction. He has every chance to become - why not?
- a living classical author."
- Hooligan Literary Magazine, Moscow, April 2005

"In PENTHOUSE F, Kalich manages to do with metafiction in a short novel what the great postmodernists like Coover and Barth take five or six hundred pages to do."
- Brian Evenson, Director, Creative writing program, Brown University.
Author of the novels, THE FATHER OF LIES and THE OPEN CURTAIN.

"If one of the great European intransigents of the last century - say, Franz Kafka or Witold Gombrowicz - were around to write a novel about our era of reality tv and the precession of simulcra, it might look like Richard Kalich's PENTHOUSE F, a narrative of sexual (or is it aesthetic?) obsession and closed-circuit television, but opening onto an interior space that both does and does not belong to our world - a space contiguous with those dark inner rooms that the European avant-gardists took us into. Right next door to PENTHOUSE F is the closet where the whipper whips his perpetual victiom in The Trial..."
- Brian McHale is an american literary theorist, a seminal critical figure in post-modern studies, author of Postmodernist Fiction (1987), Constructing Post-Modernism (1992), and The Obligation Toward the Difficult Whole (2004)