Sewing Shut My Eyes - Reviews

"In Sewing Shut My Eyes Lance Olsen creates his neocontemporary worlds of cybernetic consciousness to disturbing and hilarious effect. With customary high-voltage inventiveness (both verbal and narrative) the fictions in this collection are as edgy and outrageous as previous works such as Tonguing the Zeitgeist that have earned Olsen his avant-pop reputation....Sewing Shut My Eyes adds to Lance Olsen's deeply knowing, ever-startling oeuvre."

—Review of Contemporary Fiction

"[Lance Olsen] exhibits a joyfully subversive Marx-Brothers mentality, spinning off deadly jokes and puns faster than Robin Williams can change voices. This is fiction that cuts you open and then patches your wounds with synthetic skin that's shinier and more adaptive than your original epidermis."

—Asimov's