P.J. O’Rourke
“It is with profound glee that we members of Generations W, V, U, T, S, etc. watch Generation X agonize about growing up. The Day I Turned Uncool is one of the great feel-good books of all time–if you’re my age. If you’re some punk of 39 or less…suck it up dude. It gets so worse.”
USA Today
“Like Sedaris, he spreads the laughs throughout his essays and avoids zingers – he tells stories, not jokes. But the persona he creates for himself is more like Barry’s. Zevin wants us to know that he’s just a guy who was once a boy, and that the boy is still alive inside the guy, and that neither of them is entirely comfortable with the grown-up they’ve become.” Read more
Variety
“There are no fart jokes. There is no cruelty to animals. No airborne bodily fluids. ‘The Day I Turned Uncool: Confessions of a Reluctant Grown-Up,’ Dan Zevin’s collection of humorous essays on growing older, is part of a wave of urbane, smartly written humor books washing up on Hollywood’s shores.” Read more
The New York Times
“In every generation idealism must bite the dust. But it rarely does so with as much good humor as in Mr. Zevin’s book, Entry-Level Life: A Complete Guide to Masquerading as a Member of the Real World.” Read more
The Boston Globe
“Dan Zevin is not a man to miss an opportunity to turn his life’s milestones into comic prose and potential bestsellerdom.” Read more
Entertainment Weekly
“While the meaning of life may still elude Xers in 1994, these tips from Dan Zevin’s how-to-fake-it-in-the-Real-World Entry-Level Life offer rays of, if not hope, at least wit.” Read more
Mrs. Linda Zevin (Dan’s Mom)
“He was always a wise-guy. A mensch, but a wise-guy. Even when he was little, I said, ‘Daniel, you keep making wisecracks and one day, someone’s gonna smack you.’ Who knew he’d wind up making a living at it? Well, maybe not a living, but he gets by.”