Congrats to Rudy Delson, author of Maynard and Jennica, for the qualified rave he received in the New York Times Book Review. Writer Thomas Beller, author of The Sleepover Artist and the editor of Open City Magazine, loved Rudy’s book. Sure he has some reservations here and there. But still. Woo hoo, Rudy. Look here and read the review:

By the end of the book I was wallowing in a state of pleasure but also
suspicion — suspicious because much of the novel is just so damn cute.
But looking through its pages again I found one tiny comic gem after
another, one pitch-perfect rendering of the modern moment after
another. Delson brings a Nicholson Baker-like
degree of precision to his descriptions; the book is always alive. I
felt the odd elation that occurs when you read fiction that not only
confirms your sense of the modern world but enlarges it, even if in a
slightly precious way, and makes you laugh. That was my experience of
“Maynard & Jennica.” But that’s just me.