Major Review of YOLD

One of the most important book reviews is Booklist, which serves the trade. Here's what they had to say about YOLD:

The Year of Loving Dangerously. By Ted Rall and Pablo G. Callejo.
First published December 15, 2009 (Booklist).

In 1984, leftist cartoonist Rall was a third-year student at Columbia when a wart on his chest burst, leading to a weeklong hospital stay. Because he missed finals, he was put on academic probation and eventually thrown out of school. Unemployed and too proud to go home, he came up with a strategy. If a woman took him home for the night, he wouldn’t have to sleep on the street. Resisting intimacy whenever it showed itself, Rall found many women interested in him while unaware of his other motive. His quest for a woman ready to share her blanket took him to Washington, D.C., for anti-Reagan rallies and into several apartments in which he was more interested in well-stocked refrigerators than impending sexual adventures. Realistically illustrated in soft colors by Callejo, of Bluesman (2004–06) fame, and maximally unbuttoned in some places, Rall’s sympathetic account of his life on the edge encourages identifying with a situation so desperate that his outrageous choices seem necessary. —Stephen Weiner

One quibble: As I wrote in YOLD, I went to Washington to protest Reagan and get out of New York. Anyway, it's good they seem to have liked the book, even if they seem to have missed the metaphors and stuff.