“One of the things I really enjoyed about it, which usually annoys me to no end, is the fact that some things were just never explained. Like, why did the birds suddenly migrate to the city? And what chain of events placed the Judge in the seat of power over the city? And just who are our narrators?”

“…sometimes I thought I wanted to sound like Gandalf if Gandalf was full of shit and, like, a genocider who felt sorry for himself, but still was Gandalf, all mystical and officious, bossing everyone around.”

“Calling the narrator unreliable is beside the point; the narrator is the ideology itself that Novy critiques.”

“I was forced to apologize.”

“You what?”

Novy says that he wanted The Avian Gospels, “to read like a bogus social studies lesson told by somebody untrustworthy.”

An incredibly generous review from The Faster Times.

“…unless I write a vampire novel, I’ll probably always need a job.”

“I’ve always wanted to write a sequel to the Bible.”

“This is a dark dystopian novel with birds. It has raw language and violence that’s not for the squeamish.”

“You can certainly glean aspects of The Road or The Stand, but this is not a mash-up. It is more elusive than that.”