"Young Joey Goebel is a born writer, one of those fated originals upon whose brainpans the mad language elves have drummed with their rubidium wands."

TOM ROBBINS

"He’s created a whole living, breathing world, filled with vividly sympathetic souls and deliciously evil ones . . . one of the most interesting and engaging books I’ve read in a while"

BOSTON GLOBE

"Brutally insightful, ferociously funny — yet somehow strangely touching — The Anomalies is the freshest novel so far of the twenty-first century"

"Wickedly ingenious . . . Goebel's ebulliently funny writing sparkles off the page"

BOSTON GLOBE

"In Torture the Artist, Joey Goebel performs a mad exorcism on the society of the spectacle, unearthing the secrets of the American dream, doing it with the inventiveness of a twenty-first century Mark Twain fuelled by love and sorrow. "