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“... the funhouse novels I doubt if anyone would complain very much. Edmund White, Garrison Keillor and Bobbie AnnMason belong to the generation of American writers born during the Second World War. White’s Caracole is set in an imaginary country, part European and part Third World, in the midst of a pre-industrial Belle ...”

“... In 1973, having finished a doctoral dissertation on Nabokov, Bobbie AnnMason found herself compulsively rereading her favourite childhood books: series fiction about daring girl detectives, especially Nancy Drew. Admitting to such low tastes in the Seventies was like confessing a fondness for Hello! magazine today ...”

“... who emerged around the same time as him, and who share certain broad similarities: Tobias Wolff, Bobbie AnnMason and Ann Beattie all use an austere, melancholic naturalism, tinged with the grotesque, that owes something to Anderson’s successors – early Hemingway, Flannery ...”