Greg Ames
WINNER OF 2009 NAIBA BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD
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The voice of this novel invites you right in, and Ames knows how to build up the world with a light hand while still getting to the complicated and painful ways we muddle through. Funny and fresh and generous.
-Aimee Bender, author of The Girl in the Flammable Skirt
Buffalo Lockjaw, like its charming, bitter screw-up of a narrator, reaches finally for larger meaning, and succeeds. Greg Ames has written a brazen and tender book about a city and a scene, a mother and a son, and the beauty and pain of several kinds of love.
- Sam Lipsyte, author of Home Land
In Buffalo Lockjaw, Greg Ames manages to evoke place and expose the complexities of character in a single swift phrase. It is a funny-sad, heartbreaking, hypnotically readable debut.
- Adrienne Miller, author of The Coast of Akron
Greg Ames has written a beautiful novel. It is infused with dark comedy and pathos and great, hardboiled prose. In Buffalo Lockjaw, love of one's parents and love of one's hometown mix powerfully with the mad undertow of loss that seems as inevitable in life as gravity. I'm honored to share a last name -- no relation -- with such a wonderful writer.
- Jonathan Ames, author of Wake Up, Sir!
Greg Ames, one of the funniest writers I’ve ever read, faces dead-on the most terrifying event in a person's life. Buffalo Lockjaw is frightening, heart-rending, and beautiful. I pay it my highest compliment: I didn’t want it to end.
- Poe Ballantine, author of Things I Like About America
Greg Ames is the author of Buffalo Lockjaw, winner of the 2009 NAIBA Book of the Year Award. His stories have appeared in the Best American Nonrequired Reading, Open City, McSweeney's, The Sun, and failbetter.com. A frequent reader at the KGB Bar in Manhattan, Ames also received honorable mention in the 2003 Pushcart Prize Awards and in the 2004 Best American Nonrequired Reading. He lives in Brooklyn and has taught fiction at Brooklyn College and at Binghamton University.
