Praise for Silver Lake

Alex Pugsleys Silver Lake is sharp and hilarious and illuminates a world of vivid characters all too familiar to me

Mark McKinney The Kids in the Hall and Superstore

One of the sharpest funniest vivisections of youthful Hollywood arrival Ive ever read With an ear for dialogue to rival Richard Price a cool eye for the towns foibles both ancient and modern and a thoughtful sensibility that refuses to slide into caricature Pugsley is my new favorite writer

Matthew Specktor author of The Golden Hour

Praise for the Aubrey McKee Series

Aubrey captivated as much by his lovers eccentricities as he is by her striking beauty strives with equal energy to penetrate the mystery of a life thats been damaged by her abuse But even as Aubrey believes hes come to terms with the emotional schizophrenia of our relations when Gudruns career takes a turn that propels her in an exciting creative direction he finds himself illprepared to cope A realistic portrait of a complex romance between two mismatched but sympathetic characters

Kirkus Reviews

A fun and fascinating read from start to finish The Education of Aubrey McKee continues to showcase author Alex Pugsleys genuine flair for original distinctive and narrative driven storytelling style

Midwest Book Review

Alex Pugsleys The Education of Aubrey McKee is alive with raucous humour drunken abandon soul searching and soulcrushing crushes Full to the gills with art making and poetry and TV scripts written on spec posturing and the true thing Every page is feverish and suave Pugsley is the love child of Jack Kerouac and Greta Gerwig or DH Lawrence and Wes Andersonticklingly funny and dead serious at the same time

Lisa Moore author of This Is How We Love

This amazing book is nothing in turnsinstead it is everywhere continuously lyric hilarious and heartbreaking The promise of Alex Pugsleys nonchalant epic as of this second entry is worthy of crazy comparisonsBalzac Jonathan Coe etc Pugsleys project operates on a similar doublescale always wittily precise even sometimes zany in the particulars yet with the sense that a picture of time itself has been captured through windows in front of which his portraitsubjects merely happen to be seated

Jonathan Lethem author of Brooklyn Crime Novel

The novel has an inventive structure beginning with a short story set sometime in the future about Aubrey working as a writer on a sketchcomedy show and ending with a play by Aubrey

Publishers Weekly

Evoking comparisons in both style and substance to the work of John Irving and Robertson Davies in its assemblage of perceptive richly detailed character studies The life of a Canadian city is revealed with verve and insight

Kirkus Reviews