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"Irresistible . . . These 23 essays by writers and graphic artists depict heartache and headache in full-frontal nakedness, with plenty of love villains skewered, including the authors themselves."—The Daily Beast

"These uproarious, touching tales remind us that the heart wants what it wants, and often what it wants defies reason."—People, four-star review

“Pretty irresistible. Some of that has to do with the subject, of course: literature and heartbreak go together like Anna and Vronsky. And a lot of it has to do with the tone—the usual regret, shame, and pain are leavened here with a generous tablespoon of wry humor."—Greg Cowles, New York Times "Paper Cuts"

"The humiliating and occasionally hilarious break-ups described in Love Is a Four-Letter Word ... run the emotional gamut from neediness and infatuation to rage and disgust."—Wall Street Journal

"A quirky literary mix-tape of heartfelt, heartbreaking, painfully funny, and often poignant essays that make you appreciate the bittersweet signposts marking the perils of falling in love."—Amazon, Editors' "Best Books of the Month" sidebar, August 2009

"Love stinks, but it's really funny . . . Taeckens treats us to the clever, comedic and urbane . . . Whether set on a train-station platform or in a New York apartment, these stories are our stories."—Paste magazine

“As hard to avert your eyes from as a traffic accident . . . This is not a pity party. No, in the essays carrying the biggest charge here, the authors anatomize their own complicity and duplicity.”—Elle

“Funny, poignant.”—Real Simple

"If commiseration’s the cure for a broken heart (it is), check out Love is a Four-Letter Word, an homage to the fact that amore sometimes sucks the big one . . . Funny/sad/ridiculous tales that’ll make you feel like you’re in good company."—Daily Candy

“Heartbreak, humor, humiliation, and self-discovery—-it's all here in this collection. With crabs. And poignancy. And Wonder Woman.”—Shelf Awareness

"Man, if you're one of the people who broke up with one of these sweet kids, you must feel so stupid right now, on so many levels."—Bookslut

"A very fine anthology of original pieces about shattered love and the endless human capacity for sexual and romantic humiliation . . . There’s pain here, but there’s also a lot of raucous laughter."—Palm Beach Post

"You don't have to be nursing recent breakup wounds to appreciate the wry humor and painfully honest self-deprecation of Love Is a Four-Letter Word."—Oxford American

"These short non-fiction pieces on heartbreak and romance are funny, poignant and sad."—Minneapolis Star Tribune

"Funny, sad and cringe-inducing. It's hard to put down."—Charlotte Observer

"This is a book for those of us who have ever eaten a gallon of ice cream all by themselves while sobbing so hard they can't see the TV; who have ever sat on a subway platform so stunned they didn't even bother getting on their train; and for anybody who ever drove by an old lover's house for weeks on end, only to find, precisely, nothing."—St. Louis Post-Dispatch

"Love Is a Four-Letter Word offers flashes of insights from well-known writers about love gone wrong . . . The pieces sparkle with wit, pain and honesty."—Bookpage

“A book full of hits . . . Breakups are hard to forget, and this collection—surprisingly restrained yet full of emotion—is equally memorable.”—Publishers Weekly

“Rewarding and worth dipping into . . . Standouts include Junot Diaz’s ‘Homecoming, with Turtle,’ Gary Shteyngart’s ‘Texas’ and Maud Newton’s ‘Conversations You Have at Twenty.’ Humorist Dan Kennedy, author of the acerbic 2008 memoir Rock On, crafts a hilarious piece about dating a divorced aerobics instructor a decade older than he.”—Kirkus Reviews

“Honest, sad, witty, and fierce, here is a breakup anthology that will break your heart.”
—ZZ Packer, author of Drinking Coffee Elsewhere

“These dispatches from the deep dark depths of romantic doom will make you cringe, laugh, wince, sigh, laugh again, nod along in I’ve-been-there empathy, and recoil in thank-Jesus-I-never-went-there chagrin. Here’s the end of love, or what sometimes passes for it, in all its many forms: wistful, bitter, confused, tender, regret-strewn, and sometimes freakin’ deranged.”—JONNY MILES, author of Dear American Airlines

“The song says breaking up is hard to do, but the superb writers in Love Is a Four-Letter Word say heartbreak is just a little more complex . . . Hilarious, poignant, and insightful.”—JENNIFER GILMORE, author of Golden Country