Praise for Jeffrey Wengrofsky

“Wengrofsky’ s literary debut dazzles with surreal charm.”—Exene Cervenka of X

“Jeff Wengrofsky’s compact collection of autobiographical fever dream vignettes is delightfully ghoulish, hilariously traumatic, and most of all genuinely touching. A gritty Pilgrim’s Progress through the unnerving underbelly of a long-gone unromanticized New York City, Wengrofsky recounts with a sensitive but unsparing touch the foibles, follies, and aspirations of his youth.”—Jim Scalvunos of Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds

“Jeffrey Wengrofsky is… a Renaissance Jew.  And now he’s coming out with…The Wolfboy of Rego Park. In it, he’s a Jewish Virgil leading you on a stoner sojourn in the New York underground, replete with monsters, hardcore punks, anarchist revolutionaries, and your everyday sleazoids creeping in the shadows. What more can you want??”—Larry “Ratso” Sloman, author, producer, bandleader, multi-hyphenate, former editor, National Lampoon

“In the grand tradition of literature and film that evoke the seedy, menacing charms of urban New York, The Wolfboy of Rego Park is a rumbling subway car filled with alluring artifacts of the racy, gritty subculture that inspired Beat poets, Punk rockers and street radicals, and imbued childhood memories with life lessons both menacing and warm.  A witty and entertaining ride.”—Thane Rosenbaum, author of The Golems of Gotham, Distinguished University Professor, Touro University