Radiant Days is featured on this month's Hipster Book Club site where Marie Mundaca wrote a generous and deft review:
"a brilliant, archly funny, and painfully accurate book..."
Full Review:
http://www.hipsterbookclub.com/reviews/copy/0807/radiant_days_michael_a_fitzgerald.html

They also sang the praises of Ron Currie Jr.'s God is Dead.

Jason Pettus at the Chicago Center for Literature and Photography just posted an insightful and generous review of Radiant Days:
http://www.cclapcenter.com/2007/07/book_review_radiant_days_by_mi.html

Jenny Shanks interviewed me and my enormous head over at NewWest.net

http://www.newwest.net/index.php/topic/article/an_interview_with_michael_a_fitzgerald/C39/L39/


-michael
http://www.radiantdays.coma>

Radiant Days reviewed in the NYTBR:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/08/books/review/Skurnick.t.html

More about the book: www.radiantdays.com

Orli Van Mourik has a generous and deft review of Radiant Days in the latest issue of The Downtown Express covering Summer Reads by debut novelists.

"Fitzgerald does a brilliant job of capturing the aimless moral hunger of this generation of spoiled malcontents. ... beautifully lucid writing."

Full:
http://www.downtownexpress.com/de_213/thedebutartists.html

Thanks,
Michael

I was recently interviewed by the venerable and big-hearted Erin Ryan at Thive (our local paper).

http://thriveweekly.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070424/THRIVE04/704240310/1132/THRIVE04

In his keenly accomplished first novel, FitzGerald's enigmatic tale of a feckless and dissolute American caught up in world events beyond his comprehension brings a disquieting new interpretation to the old adage that truth is the first casualty of war. At the height of San Francisco's dot-com revolution, Anthony unhesitatingly abandons his unfulfilling job to follow Gisela, a beautiful young woman he has only just met, back to her native Hungary, ostensibly on a mission to locate her missing son. Arriving during the perilous waning days of the Balkan War, the pair attach themselves to British journalist Marsh, who, at 24, already has attained a cynical disregard for humanity that endangers his two new friends. As Anthony falls more deeply in love with Gisela, Gisela's precise reasons for being in country dissolve into drug- and lust-induced escapades. Through Anthony's self-indulgent and alienated voice, FitzGerald flawlessly and astutely mirrors the ennui and confusion of a generation and world enervated by ceaseless and senseless images of war.
- Carol Haggas at Booklist

My blog entry (my first!) about a gay rooster, fiction writing, and software development is up over at The Nervous Breakdown.

Thanks,
Michael