Sara Levine (All press)
- Jul 8 2024
A Top 10 Book of the 21st Century, according to Paul Tremblay
— New York Times Book Review - Jul 3 2024
“Short and absolutely delightful.”
— Electric Lit - Sep 10 2021
“Throw yourself headlong into the tornado of chaos that is the protagonist of Sara Levine’s Treasure Island!!!”
— Vulture - Aug 1 2020
“Darkly funny.”
— Travel and Leisure - Jan 28 2014
Dazed Digital: Cited as one of the Top Ten Female Protagonists in Books in which Girls Rule - Jan 14 2014
“Incisive and intelligent . . . compelling.”
— Buzzfeed - Jan 3 2014
Buzzfeed: Treasure Island!!! Featured in article about the Importance of Unlikeable Female Protagonists - Dec 18 2013
Buzzfeed: Treasure Island!!! chosen as one of the 29 Books to Get You Through Your Quarter Life Crisis - Sep 26 2013
Late Night Library Podcast Interview with Sara Levine - Oct 25 2012
“Levine manages to get serious by retaining a sense of humour.”
— London Review of Books - May 24 2012
NPR - Nancy Pearl Unearths Great Summer Reads: "I found Treasure Island!!! to be a total hoot. Outrageous!!! Delightful!!!" - Mar 13 2012
Jewish Daily Forward: "Levine is fantastically talented." - Feb 14 2012
Toronto Globe & Mail: "Treasure Island!!! is a girl’s own self-helpless book, a parody of family memoirs, with a serious undercurrent." - Jan 23 2012
Toronto Globe & Mail Interview With Sara Levine - Jan 23 2012
The Lit Show: An Interview with Sara Levine - Jan 23 2012
Iowa Public Radio Interview With Sara Levine - Jan 22 2012
San Francisco Chronicle: "Treasure Island!!!" is unstoppably funny." - Jan 17 2012
Chicago Reader: "It's really good!!! And funny!!!" - Jan 17 2012
Chicago Magazine: Interview with Sara Levine - Jan 10 2012
Los Angeles Review of Books: "A wild, funny, rambunctiously surprising look at what happens when the very thing needed to shake up a life does its job far too well." - Jan 6 2012
New York Times Book Review: "Levine is a wonderful storyteller with a vibrant voice. “Treasure Island!!!” is a rollicking tale, shameless, funny and intelligent." - Jan 5 2012
The Nervous Breakdown: Self Interview - Jan 3 2012
The Boston Bibliophile: "I laughed my way through...this addictive little pageturner." - Jan 1 2012
Minneapolis Star Tribune: "Levine's subtle insight about the egocentric nature of our society is knife-sharp." - Dec 28 2011
Time Out Chicago: "Levine...is a tremendously funny writer." - Dec 27 2011
Tin House: "I was taken in instead by the subtle drawing of its characters and their misdeeds." - Dec 15 2011
The New York Times: "An absurdist comedy of suburbia." - Dec 14 2011
The Washington Post: "Levine sports an original, brutally witty voice." - Dec 13 2011
O., The Oprah Magazine: "[An] irreverent comic novel of self-empowerment." - Nov 15 2011
Library Journal: "This highly original, farcical novel will keep you entertained." - Nov 3 2011
Kirkus: "A hoot." - Sep 11 2011
Library Journal Prepub Alert: "A sassy first novel ... You can't go wrong."