Reviews of Van Gogh’s Bad Café
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From N+1…
[T]he most seductive book I’ve read in a long time.[…] The book is worth reading just for Frederic Tuten’s descriptions of sunlight.
By Hannah Tennant-Moore
From Fields of Twisting Flox…
A truly moving tale of love, the novel is enriched by Tuten’s incredible poetic language. My jaw literally dropped when I read some of his extraordinary passages—Tuten evokes enduring images with mere words.
By K Paige Young
From The Antioch Review…
A stylistic tour de force, the novel is exuberantly baroque, nearly every sentence concocted out of high and low vocabularies. […] Here is an oft-hilarious satire of contemporary America and a heady spoof of the classical menage a trois.
By John Taylor
From The Review of Contemporary Fiction…
Tuten’s style is a masterly blend of gritty speech rhythms and the prose equivalent of cherry blossoms. He treats Van Gogh’s devotion to beauty with honesty and tact, revealing horror, like a geological seam, beneath the radiant haze of the canvases.
From Life and Times of a “New” New Yorker…
[T]he writing was poetical and at times beautiful. […] a bittersweet novel.