SOME REVIEWS OF THE HOUSE OF GOD :

"The best novel ever written about doing an internship." --Medical Self-Care

"Bawdy, blistering... This is Catch 22 with stethescopes." --Cosmopolitan

"Brilliant." --Chicago Tribune

"A wildly funny, sad, laugh-out-loud, frightening, outrageous, thought-provoking, moving book...A story of modern medicine rarely,if ever, told." --Houston Chronicle

"It does for the practice of medicine what Catch 22 and M*A*S*H* di d for the practice of warfare."

Wonderfully wild, ribald, erotic, bitter, compassionate...In the same spirit as Catch 22 or M*A*S*H.
--Seattle Times

"Fascinating." --Wall Street Journal

"Mordantly funny, brilliantly ironic...A writer of outstanding substance and style.Raunchy, racy, tons of fun."
--Library Journal

"Belly-laugh humor...Will be one of the most talked about books of the year. --Memphis Press Scimitar

"Undiluted fun...It takes off in the first chapter at a fast, hilarious pace and never slows down."
--Medical Tribune

"Compelling. ..Shem has a hot eye for nubile sexual objects." --Boston Globe

"Raw, realistic, ribald and randy." --Richard Gordon, author of Doctor in the House (Great Britain)

"Un petit chef-d' oeuvre." (a small masterpiece). --from a review in a Paris daily

SOME REVIEWS OF FINE:
"Exhilarating...a glittering gemstone.. Dazzling... (Shem) knows the self-righteous society of psychoanalysts...and merrily punctures its balloons with its own cliches."
--Los Angeles Times

"Funny...Full of dazzling, zany intelligence...energetic and exuberant." --New York Times

"Hilarious...Not to be missed...and filled with emotions and truths comon to us all."
--San Diego Tribune

"Ultimately absorbing...a mix of high-toned phil osophy, current psychoanalytic theories, broad comedy, raunchy sex, and even the suspense of a murder mystery...a story with metaphysical overtones .About the eternal mind/body dilema, the love/hate conflict in human relationships."--Publishers Weekly

"This is a psychiatrist? This is all that stands between us and misery? The truth of Shem's portrait of the head doctor as a young man should make customers out of everyone who's ever been in therapy and everyone who's thought about why he or she hasn't been...lnspired...Fascinating...Often scandalous."--Los Angeles Herald-Examiner

"A Marx Brothers comedy...A French farce... Therapy for the funny bone...Hits the marrow."
--Washington Post

"Riveting...A rollicking journey of self-discovery and love." --San Diego Union

SOME AMERICAN REVIEWS OF MOUNT MISERY:
"Outrageously funny, a sage and important novel by a healer and a Shakespearean"-Boston Globe

"This superbly incisive and witty sequel to Shem's bestselling THE HOUSE OF GOD is a carnival of fascinating secrets and terrible abuses. Shem's comic energy and deep understanding of mental illness make for riveting reading"-Publishers Weekly (starred review)

"Freud meets Prozae--unabashed satire"-Boston Herald

"Successfully parodies the counterintuitive, Alice-in-wonderland quality of psychiatry."
- The New York Times

"Hilarious and provocative, Sllem is razor-sharp, evoking the dark, circular humor of a Joseph Heuer"-Kirkus Reviews

"The comic genius and holy terror of medicine rides again!"-Dr. Leston Havens, Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School

"Samuel Shem follows up his classic novel of American internship with another medical classic"-BookPage

REVIEWS OF BILL W. AND DR.BOB

"An insightful new play."- The New York Times

"An endearing portrait of friendship uplifted by warm humor"- The New Yorker

"Deeply humane, audience-embracing, intelligent writing, a leavening of humor and an innate powerof biographical storytelling. A remarkable story!"-Variety

"Something rare and exciting is happening at the New World Theatre. Producers often aspire to find'new audiences' (and it's happening here). Profoundly moving and highly dramatic. It is theatre for a new audience." -WBAl Pacifica Radio New York

"Holds the audience in the palm of its hand from the very start... The stakes are life-or-deatthroughout... Captures the wild, exciting uncertainty of invention.. An uplifting reminder of the power of the human spirit. The sleeper hit of the season"-nytheatre.com          

"A funny, poignant, compelling new play. A universal message."-Boston Herald

Bill W. and Dr. Bob: Interview with Stephen Bergman and Janet Surrey (Counselor Magazine)