"[A] magic carpet of a novel with a wonderfully disorienting charm." -- Scott Morris, The Wall Street Journal

"I can think of no other contemporary writer who offers such surprises -- it is impossible to predict even how a sentence will end. . . . Pearson is surely among the greatest living Southern writers." -- Haven Kimmel, author of Something Rising (Light and Swift)

"If Garrison Keillor and William Faulkner were joined in holy literary matrimony, with high priestesses Eudora Welty and Jane Austen waving an occasional wand over the process, their collective tale-spinning offspring might well bear a resemblance to Southern writer T. R. Pearson." -- Michael Upchurch, The Seattle Times

"Louis makes a wonderful narrator of Glad News, mainly because he accepts just about everyone with humane resignation and understanding. He's the epitome of empathic tolerance. Louis eventually faces a situation that forces him to take charge of his life. And he does so with the humanity and wise humor that you'd expect from a lovable loser." -- Charles Ealy, The Dallas Morning News