Channel-Surfing the Apocalypse
by Susan Smith Nash

"Susan Smith Nash is pissed off and she refuses to sulk. Sometimes she merely rails against a daunting roster of end-of-the-millennium catastrophes. But she's mostly a lot more proactive. She coldly strategizes, carefully picks her fights, crashes a slew of extremely bloody parties and refuses to check her mordant attitude at the door...Nash's book veers back-and-forth between a dense "poetic" tone and a broad-brush language/emotionality that adds up to journalism--albeit an edgy hybrid..."

From The Review of Contemporary Fiction:

"...Channel-Surfing the Apocalypse combines provocative prose and fluid poetry, brassy style and feminist content. The ideas are original and alluring..."

From Poetic Briefs:

"...a far-flung correspondent's journal showing the courage to be vulernable in a dangerous world...of a woman surviving erotic disaster...of a person who encounters flashes of infidelity at a Dairy Boy Drive-in...it holds the happy sass of Eileen Myles...the fun is not in the narrative but in the reading of it. Humor is one way to survive."

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