"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)

PENTHOUSE F - Richard Kalich's extraordinary new novel is a work concerned with the writing life, but it is also much more. A brilliant metafiction that deals with issues of great import to our post-postmodern age. This is an important work that deserves to be read by everyone interested in serious fiction.
- Marc Lowe, Review of Contemporary Fiction, Spring 2011

PENTHOUSE F - Richard Kalich's newest novel is hilarious for being the most piquant appropriator of absurdism... Kalich has succeeded in consistently producing perplexing fictions that fail to categorize themselves and escape the warping influence of authorial intent.
- Christopher Leise, Electronic Book Review

PENTHOUSE F - This book is of the kind that once you start you just want to keep reading both to find out what happens, and in this case, the strange way it makes what happens work. I’ve since bought everything else by Kalich I can find (nameably The Nihilesthete (1987) & The Zoo (2001) & Charlie P (2005)). This is a book, a body of work, an author, deserving a new unearthing eye.
- Blake Butler, HTMLGIANT Reviews

PENTHOUSE F - Richard Kalich's third novel pushes all the buttons a good whodunit novel ought to push - it’s enthralling, intriguing and tense throughout. Penthouse F is a baffling, intricate and accomplished work of meta-fiction, exploring themes of cruelty, obsession, the cult of observation and the greasy, perforated, un-ironed linen skin between fiction and reality... Thrilling and confusing in equal measure, Penthouse F is an important book that dismantles the reader, leaving you in fragmented bits and pieces like the barbed clips that make up the novel’s structure.
- Colin Herd, 3:AM Magazine

 "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