-Jonathan Safran Foer

Formal adventurousness, anarchy, wordplay, and intellectual sophistication ... there is a great deal of authority in this writing ... superb.

—R.M. Berry

Until I read Kissed By, Alexandra Chasin's marvelous collection, I never understood what the term "experimental fiction" really meant. Now I get it. Chasin enters each story as if it's her laboratory. She has the great gift of being able to bring us along on her investigation; she seems to hold up each sentence for our inspection. It's thrilling to watch Chasin as she pours her chemicals to find out what will fizz and what will explode.

—Pagan Kennedy

A tour de force of pieces about love and longing and language, but mostly longing, deferred desire at both a thematic and structural stratum ... beautiful narrative mutations ... bright, whimsical linguistic wrenchings ... luminosities ....

—Lance Olsen

With an alchemy entirely her own, Alexandra Chasin turns indexes into poetry, flips love inside out, and fixes her dissecting, tender gaze on both the minutiae and vastness of the world. Strange birds, these stories, to show up in your neighborhood-- and how they sing.

—Elizabeth Graver