From Publishers Weekly
A spoof of literary quarterlies, complete with articles, interviews and poetry; Charyn parodies academic life in this "issue" commemorating a junior-college campus security guard killed by a bus.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Review
"An important book . . . an experiment in complex impressionistic and involutional form, striking and original in the extremes..." --
Albert J. Guerard, TriQuarterly"Jerome Charyn has long ranked among the most talented, intelligent, and persevering of my contemporaries; and his fiction has established a solidly developing body of achievement. However, The Tar Baby represents a leap ahead, both conceptually and stylistically, and the sheer hilarity of the sustainedly marvelous invention ought to win for the book the audience it deserves." --
Richard Kostelanetz