About the author(s)

Kyle Smith is the author of Love Monkey, the hit novel that was adapted into a CBS television series starring Tom Cavanagh and Jason Priestley. He is also a movie critic for the New York Post, which posts his reviews online each week at nypost.com. He lives in New York City.

Reviews

“The American answer to HIGH FIDELITY.” - Glamour

“Fast-paced and witty [with] laugh-out-loud moments … A novel that’s worth checking out.” - Romantic Times BOOKclub

“Funny ... entertaining ... dashed with a pleasing amount of malice.” - Kirkus Reviews

“An instant classic .... gives women the one thing they almost never get from men—the truth.” - Marian Keyes

“Somewhere between Nick Hornby...and David Sedaris....A lively, promising debut.” - Publishers Weekly

“This is the funniest book I’ve read all year. ” - Toby Young, author of How to Lose Friends and Alienate People

“Very funny and the writing is superb. Kyle Smith is fearsomely talented.” - Anna Maxted, author of Getting Over It

“LOVE MONKEY ... resurrects and updates the Dorothy Parker style of talking about New York ....[Smith’s] ruthless humor knows no bounds.” - Maureen Corrigan on Fresh Air

“An anatomy chart of the male psyche, revealing...at root, a deep yearning for romantic love.” - Meghan Daum, author of The Quality of Life Report

“I laughed....I must confess to being a sucker for Smith’s brand of cheeky humor.” - Baltimore Sun

“Deeply hilarious and incriminatingly insightful....literary junk food for the Hungry-Man soul.” - Los Angeles Times

“Cleverly, breathlessly written, with laughs on every page....A worthy debut.” - Miami Herald

“Move over Bridget Jones....Kyle Smith’s LOVE MONKEY is by turns hilarious and touching.” - Boston Herald

“Hilarious.” - New York Times

“[LOVE MONKEY] will no doubt be heralded as the male Bridget Jones.” - New York Times Book Review

“Hilarious ....Very funny and unexpectedly touching ...had [me] laughing out loud for an hour.” - Atlanta Journal-Constitution

“The male BRIDGET JONES: New York’s most buzzed-about novel.” - New York Post

“Love Monkey nails it!” - Time Magazine

“Screamingly funny.” - Hartford Courant

“Full of sexy tomfoolery....[Yet] carefully concealed beneath the glittery fun is a novel of craft and purpose.” - Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel

“Readers [will] soon realize that everything he thinks and almost everything he says is either perfectly perceptive or wryly amusing.” - Daily News

“Exceedingly readable and wickedly funny.” - San Francisco Chronicle

“Wickedly wry....Move over, Carrie Bradshaw.” - New York Sun

“Hilarious...refreshing.... A helluva lot of fun.” - Entertainment Weekly

“The American answer to Nick Hornby...a cheeky, ribald, riotous page-turner.” - Seattle Post-Intelligencer

“Devilishly hilarious ... An amusing and endearing portrait of a near-loser about to blossom into a truly cool guy.” - Booklist

“An exceedingly readable and wickedly funny romantic comedy.” - San Francisco Chronicle

More by Kyle Smith

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