PRESS / CRITICAL ACCLAIM : AND NOW WE ARE GOING TO HAVE A PARTY

"Rivaling McSweeney's for the nerve and zeal of its graphic design, Payseur & Schmidt have created their most ambitious and satisfying book-as-artifact yet. Composed of loose leaf photos, booklets, books, posters, and even including scratch-and-sniff cards and CDs, this memoir of a writer's formative years crackles with intelligence, wit, and pathos. Griffith's essays about sexuality and her writing are often funny, and always insightful. This box of a book is another shining example of twenty-first-century book-making, and a delight to own."
— Jeff VanderMeer, Amazon.com blog

"Like the best of [Nicola Griffith's] fiction, it rips your heart out and alternately fills it up in all the right places. That it's not fiction makes the story all the more powerful."
— Anonymous, LibraryThing

"Somewhere out there a pissed off seventeen-year-old is looking for a reason to believe in the future; give her Griffith's book and she will know she's not alone, she will know that what happens next might just might make this whole growing up nightmare worth it."
— Colleen Mondor, Bookslut

"The Seattle novelist ("Always") takes an unusual approach to autobiography with this "Party," which comes in a box containing five chapbook-memoirs of her English girlhood and wild youth, a CD of songs performed by Griffith (both solo and with her 1980s band Janes Plane), three scratch-and-sniff cards, an autographed baby picture, replicas of her childhood drawings, and more."
— Michael Upchurch, Book Editor, Seattle Times

"This ain't your Mama's memoir."
— Malinda Lo, AfterEllen.com

"I'm always curious as to how writers got here from there - how did they find a way to make it all happen. Griffith does a superb job of telling that part of life as well as basically laying her heart open on the issue of love - both romantic and family. This is a very very honest book. If you know a would-be writer then this would make a lovely surprise gift - and if you know a teen whose struggling with coming out, well you can't go wrong with it there either."
— Colleen Mondor, ChasingRay.com

"I love the cherishing of the child Nicola in this package — I love that an adult can do this with such completeness, and that in particular, Nicola did this for herself. I loved what Dorothy Allison said — how wonderful that Nicola has created this intricate archive for all of us, and this evocative package."
— Elena Yatzeck
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