Steve Toltz, author of “Quicksand,” the follow-up to Toltz’s Man Booker Prize shortlisted novel, “A Fraction of the Whole.” It is a comedic character study set in Australia that concerns the nature of ...
Steve Toltz’s first novel A Fraction of the Whole was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. His latest, A Rising of the Lights, may well get him there again. It is probably best described as a ...
Portland Press Herald: Steve Toltz’s novel about death, ‘Here Goes Nothing,’ is gravely funny
Limping through a worldwide pandemic spiked with fresh threats of nuclear war, you may be craving a book to cheer you up. Look away! Steve Toltz’s grim comic novel “Here Goes Nothing” hangs on the ...
The Australian: Steve Toltz’s new novel sacrifices its story at the altar of the gag
There’s an old rumour that Nikolai Gogol, the author of Dead Souls, cackled in his study deep into the night as he wrote his satire of imperialist Russia. Reading Steve Toltz, I imagine something ...
Steve Toltz’s new novel sacrifices its story at the altar of the gag
Steve Toltz gets the balance right between hijinks and heart, as he turns his comedic chops and maturing craft to an immediate-future world of AI and robots ...
The Conversation: Here comes the pandemic fiction: murder, disease and life after death in Steve Toltz’s Here Goes Nothing
The afterlife, as depicted in Steve Toltz’s latest novel Here Goes Nothing, turns out to be somewhat disappointing. There are no heavenly rewards or seething lakes of fire. If there are any reunions ...