Praise for Need Blind Ambition
“Need Blind Ambition offers a spirited tour of the private higher ed landscape. Like many denizens of this world, our protagonist Peter Cook is never quite sure whether he's in a tragedy or a comedy. Myers enrolls the reader in academia with an insider's knowledge and an outsider's indignation at the folly of it all.”
— Jan Mieszkowski is professor of German and comparative literature at Reed College. His most recent book is Crises of the Sentence.
“Need Blind Ambition is intelligent, heartbreaking, and often sharply funny. It’s a deftly observed, thrilling, I’m-going-to-be-late-but-gotta-finish-this-chapter kind of book.”
— Gary Gulman of HBO’s “TheGreat Depresh,” author of “Misfit: Growing Up Awkward in the '80s,” and Peabody Legend
“With a complex plot, realistic characters, and exploration of relevant issues, Need Blind Ambition is an excellent read.”
— Gilion Dumas, The Rose City Reader.
Praise for Hidden Falls
“Hidden Falls is many books in one—replete with humor, it’s also a thriller, a love story (or two!), a series of mysteries, a deep reflection on the relationship between fathers and sons, and a demonstration of how the past haunts the present. Kevin Myers manages, through the affable voice of his narrator, Micheal Quinn, to synthesize this complex, many-dimensional world in a compelling, deeply human fashion. Read it!”
— Peter Rock, author of My Abandonment (now the film Leave No Trace) and The Night Swimmers
“Hidden Falls is like Dennis Lehane and David Sedaris got together to write a romantic comedy. It’s intelligent, charming, and the perfect combination of funny and thrilling.”
— Judd Apatow, writer and director of The 40-Year Old Virgin (co-written with Steve Carell), Knocked-Up, and Funny People. Author of Sick in the Head and It's Gary Shandling's Book
“In Michael Quinn, the narrator of Hidden Falls, Kevin Myers has created a deeply sympathetic character, flawed but self-aware. You can’t help but root for Quinn as he tries to reconcile the past he thought he knew with his family’s secret history, and you stick with him as he wades in deeper and deeper. Most of us have navigated passages like this (in less dramatic fashion), discovering new chapters in familiar stories. Myers deftly, vividly explores that strange emotional terrain, where the intimately familiar is suddenly shot through with unexpected revelation. ”
— —Jenna Russell, co-author, Long Mile Home: Boston Under Attack, the City’s Courageous Recovery, and the Epic Hunt for Justice.