People Who Approve of Dave
A COMPREHENSIVE LIST COMPILED BY CHLAMYDIA PINES
“Dave Shulman’s Column Dave and Sitegeist columns in L.A. Weekly made me understand America in the same way that Kurt Vonnegut made me understand America — as a strangely beguiling land full of nearly human aliens in urgent need of sympathy and love.”
—MARGARET WERTHEIM
“His prose floats like a dragonfly and stings like a beaver. No, not a beaver, a scorpion. It’s also funny as hell, and always grounded in his generous spirit. I love Dave Shulman’s work.”
—CALEF BROWN
“Dave Shulman is an enormous oil spill of intelligence and humor. I love him. So should you.”
—LOU BEACH
“In this big jigsaw puzzle of life, Dave Shulman writes like a piece that fits.”
—STAN RIDGWAY
“Dave Shulman is a very fine writer: a superb wit, a scathing and rigorous social commentator, and a well-rounded and deft thinker. I dig this guy’s work — and that is no fucking shit.”
—JAMES ELLROY
“He’s a strong satirist, with see-through eyes and humor that cuts upside your head. And he’s a lot of other things, too… ”
—PETER CASE
“Dave Shulman is one of the very few writers to have interviewed Tony Clifton. Afterwards, Tony said, ‘And I thought I was fucked up.’”
—BOB ZMUDA
“Dave Shulman either introduced magic realism into suburban angst, or suburban angst into magic realism.”
—PETER FRANK
“One of our sharpest comedic minds, Dave possesses that rare mix of genius, insanity and a masterful command of language.”
—JEFFREY VALLANCE
“Shulman is more than an amazing writer, he’s a unique, twisted and beautifully hysterical visionary, never afraid to crucify himself along with whatever other subject he happens to be lacerating. I’d take five sentences from any of his columns over entire chunks of most contempo ‘cutting edge’ novels.”