Early Stuff

Praise for SAM PINK

    THE NO HELLO’S DIET

“The No Hellos Diet by Sam Pink backs in to weirdness in much the same way as the early novels of Chuck Palahnuik. Life lived on the sketchy edges of society has an innate weirdness brought on by poverty, social exclusion and mental illness. Pink is a keen observer of the culture of minimum-wage jobs and low-rent studio apartments that is the reality of life for all those who don't find a cog space in today's hyper-capitalist economy. The No Hellos Diet is the story of a shop clerk with no dreams or aspirations, told in the second person because, frankly, this is your life we're talking about here.” - THE GUARDIAN

”No matter what he's writing, Pink's eye for describing the bizarre daily parade of being a person surrounded by other people and with a brain that won't turn off is by turns hilarious, self-destructive, surreal, precise, and moving without trying to be moving.” - VICE       
 

    PERSON

“A phenomenal achievement.” - Mike Daily, author of Alarm and Valley

“If you read just one book this year, let it be Sam Pink's Person.” - Electric Literature

“It made me laugh and my hair stand on end.” - HTML Giant

“...there's a troubling build-up of rage and self-destructive desire that makes Person incredibly unsettling. In other words, he's a great example of why I carry Mace.” - The Fanzine

THE GARBAGE TIMES/WHITE IBIS

”Between awful jobs, country club soirées, reptile shows, and an unlikely turn entertaining a troop of Girl Scouts, the narrator and his girlfriend learn to thrive in ‘the theme park state.’ Pink certainly gets Florida right, and his prose is wonderfully offbeat.”- Publishers Weekly

”The novellas are hilarious and unabashedly honest in showing how bizarre life is, how unpredictable people are, and yet how each person craves love, dignity, freedomâthe fundamental needs we all share . . . There is a mysterious momentum at work in the voice-driven narrative, a Murakami-like invisible hand that guides these characters with a purpose to press on . . . His stories are unique and true and impossible to put downâwhat more could anyone want?” - Taylor Larsen, Los Angeles Review of Books

”Sam Pink is the most important writer in America. This isn’t hyperbole. In a world of literary Bing Crosbys, Sam Pink is our Little Richard. The Garbage Times/White Ibis is the voice of the new writing underground.” - Scott McClanahan, author of The Sarah Book and Hill William

”Sam Pink’s writing is exquisitely succulentâit stimulates my intellect, makes me laugh and smile and feel complex emotions, and delights me with its tenderness, novelty, intensity, concision, and surprises.” - Tao Lin, author of Trip and Taipei