Everything Jacob Wren touches and interests me, excites me - he's both sophisticated and innocent in attitude - he's a kind of wise old man and open-hearted lover. With his vivacious ideas, word play, and the serious and inane served up on a plate - Wren lifts my spirits, intellectual and other, because to know he's writing so beautifully in this mad, sad world is a wonderful thing. - Lynne Tillman Jacob Wren's work has always explored the dissonance between psychodynamics - which reveals the ambiguities and possibilities of human behavior - and the deadening psychic economy of capital. In Revenge Fantasies, he demonstrates how deeply literary these concerns are. Whether depicting the intricate mood-shifts of a triangulated romance, or chronicling the inchoate optimism of marathon group meetings designed to identify 'what went wrong' with the left, or recasting the recent political past as dystopian sci-fi, the novel is fascinating, lurid and highly accomplished, evoking the best of Colette, Robert Musil and Julio Cortazar. - Chris Kraus On a shaky spectrum careening back and forth between cynical, heartbreaking negativity to somewhat disturbing, cheeky epiphanies, Jacob Wren doesn't want you to necessarily see the world as he does, but he does mention the sheer importance of having to get these heavy feelings and observations off of his chest before he no longer can. He sees importance in his voice joining the others who have witnessed, who have seen, who are still witnessing and seeing injustice. There is a kind of urgency that comes forth over and over again in Wren's Families are Formed Through Copulation.

It is of dire importance that you at least hear what Wren says - even if most of us are not well-equipped to do much about it. - Jacquelyn David, Bookslut.