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Discussions

Erin Hoover and Paul Martone devoted the November 2011 Late Night Library podcast to a thoughtful conversation about You Don't Love This Man.

Emily Burns wrote a nice piece about the book on her site, Mostly Novels.

Interviews

Responding to questions from Jamie Passaro of Northwest Book Lovers, I talked about my admiration for The Walkmen's album You & Me.

Helyn Trickey of OPB Arts & Life indulged my rambling responses to her questions about writing and publishing.

Response to the Book

"Of particular interest--spotlighted wryly by DeWeese--is just what the women around Paul know that he doesn't (quite a bit, it turns out). Paul is utterly sympathetic even in his faults, and as he comes to a sort of reckoning with his own limitations--and with what, exactly, he is losing on his daughter's wedding day--DeWeese details the process with subtlety and humor." --Alison Hallett, Portland Mercury

"Life, both mundane and off-kilter, is revealed in this fine novel about a man who may not be as lost as he thinks."
--Kirkus Reviews

"Oddly tense and ultimately, cleansingly sad, You Don't Love This Man wrings an amazing amount of pathos out of one (only seemingly) ordinary life."
--Tom Bissell, author of The Father of All Things

"The careful, unpretentious opening of You Don't Love This Man can't possibly belie the cataclysm of interpersonal drama it contains. . . . The story has left me in that strange place between emotional exhaustion and raw, refreshed excitement for life. This amazing novel is why novels exist."
--Patrick Somerville, author of The Universe in Miniature in Miniature

"DeWeese gives us a portrait of one man's alienation, self-doubt, passivity, and, ultimately, his redeeming passion. With admirable formal restraint and unyielding sympathy, DeWeese delivers a whole adult life in a day."
--Jon Raymond, author of Livability

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