Reviews of Frantic Transmissions to and from Los Angeles

“As a memoirist, Braverman is one hell of a poet. She caresses ideas like and enraptured lover, lulling herself and the reader with language so bewitching as to be almost druglike.”–San Francisco Chronicle

“Kate Braverman has produced a daring body of work that strips bare the myth of glitzy Los Angeles to expose its decidedly unglamorous underbelly.” —Bookforum

“A must-have for readers who long for the voice of the writer to transfix them.” —ForeWord

“Her Pared down, declarative style can make even dull observations resonate.”—Time Out New York

“A haunting eulogy for a megalopolis ‘fermenting under an incendiary sun.’”—East Bay Express

“Like the metropolis that reared her and continues to engage her imagination, Frantic Transmissions is a colorful, multifaceted creation: alluring, eluxive and often dazzling.”—Los Angeles Times

“Frantic Transmissions [has] the ragged, provocative quality of a letter written, torn up, and revised, ad infinitum.”—The Village Voice

“Her accounts are beautifully written, and expecially potenet when set against searing portraits of the ‘chrome ruins’ of L.A.”—Time Out Chicago

“A brash, witty memoir.” —Publishers Weekly

“An absorbing chronicle of a personal journey with broader implications.” —Kirkus Reviews

“[Braverman] turns genre inside out; she embraces the page rather than resting her words on it. Her works [are] driven by emotion, dialogue and piercing observation brimming with metaphors.” –The Jewish Week