Rhonda Lieberman

High praise...

Rhonda Lieberman is an unmatchable wit, a superb essayist, a prose stylist of rare felicity and power. She’s one of the shrewdest, funniest diagnoticians of contemporary America writing today. I’m always eager to read anything she writes, on any subject—this collection is a banquet of insight, high humor, and fabulous intelligence. She proves that you can keep your heart in the right place without suffering fools, which is really quite unusually difficult in the strange times we live in.

— Gary Indiana

You can't begin any essay in The Rhonda Lieberman Reader (I counted 96) without immediately getting the sense of a brilliantly clever writer who also happens to be extremely vulnerable...serious and self effacing, hitting the nail on the head while banging it in from the side of the block and most often hilariously funny. Rhonda Lieberman does not miss a trick and never ceases to brilliantly (did I use the word brilliant twice?) analyze the more complex not to mention the most vacuous issues of our time... I have to stop myself from reading this tome, and it is a tome, all in one gulp!

— Joan Snyder

What the world needs now is Rhonda Lieberman’s loving unself-conscious self-consciousness, an ethnic awareness that surpasses the identity anxieties of todays over-sensitive tribes with healing laughter.

— David V. Forrest. M.D.

Falling somewhere between the new journalism and critical theory, Rhonda Lieberman wraps complex cultural critique in the readable guise of cultural criticism. Fusing the frivolous with the forbidding, she makes difficult ideas easy and easy ideas difficult. The perpetual outsider brought inside, Lieberman renders the knowable strange and the unknowable familiar. Simply put, The Rhonda Lieberman Reader is the most pleasurably demanding, demandingly pleasurable book you’ll read.

— Kenneth Goldsmith

…But she’s more than just the art world’s Joan Rivers…With Lieberman you come for the wisecracks but stay for the content, especially her well-worded projectiles aimed at institutionalized hypocrisy.

— Gilda Williams, Frieze