"I won't compare Ben Rosenthal's stories to those of anyone else because I can't. They are cold and hard, deranged with longing, sickly funny, and far too real for comfort. The writing? Pretty much impossibly good: impeccable, fierce, and barreling at you fast. Rosenthal has vision, skill, and control, and this book is full of stories that seem shaped out of something that's always been there. I want more of this mind, this view of our days, packaged in perfectly surgical sentences. S-Bahn 5:32 is freakishly good." – Ben Marcus

"There is something powerfully alive and beautiful in these stories, something dirty and true and flat out astonishing. When I wasn't marveling at Rosenthal's blazing intelligence and guffawing at passages of dark unbridled ribald hilarity, I was struck by the moments of true of tenderness and genuine feeling, thinking here is writer who sees how broken we are and celebrates it. I feel so damn lucky." - Elissa Schappell"