Raised by Puppets, Only to be Killed by Research

Codrescu has an amazing instinct for comic revelatory detail (and can) make provocative . . . connections among the stray facts of the everyday.--San Francisco Chronicle. The reason he's adored is that he's smack in the tradition of the lovable, unthreatening curmudgeons such as Fred Allen and Andy Rooney. . . . Quite a feat.--Booklist.