In Speak English, readers will find their favorite Michael Palecek themes (Truth, Justice and Xenophobia) in one of his most successful blends of social critique, humor, outrage and poignancy. In Palecek's work, the hypocrisy of the powers...
Periodically, a new novel by Mike Palecek explodes out of the heartland. Without fail, Palecek’s writing is gripping, entertaining, artful and powerfully expresses the crying need for social justice in a broken world. His brand new book is Speak...
The paranormal meets a rite-of-passage tale in plain, American English, and the Alien Question is answered -- or is it? Inside-out, 21st century conspiracy theory gets right in your face -- I love it!
Lisa B. Falour is the Pushcart Prize nominee...
When one begins cranking, Speak English plays a back-country tune of rednecks and ETs. And then -- surprise! -- the lid pops open, and a Jack-in-the-box springs out, sounding very like Mike Palacek, on the road, singing other songs, a voice pleading...
Mike Palecek has been a consistently good writer about the real America, not the one we pretend we live in.
Meria Heller produces and hosts the Meria Show.
Speak English will take you to places you need to go, introduce you to people you need to meet, and invite you to ask questions that perhaps need to be asked. Bookended between thick, meaty slabs of Mike Palecek's signature staccato, thoughtful and...
Mike Palecek’s writing sounds like madness; as complete sanity always does in these insane times. In Speak English he once again takes us for a wild ride through a world that’s twisted and surreal just enough to be able to speak the simple truth...
With Speak English, Mike Palecek takes us on a journey across a strange but disturbingly familiar American landscape, populated by the people we encounter everyday but never consider twice, and the aliens whose lives we never imagine.
Chris Cook...
American culture is not safe. Mike Palecek is amongst us again. You will never look at space aliens, Schlitz beer, old Chevy's, hunting, hippies, 9-11, or the sheer insanity of the military/corporate complex the same again. Speak English is a wild...
Speak English poetically weaves together our most urgent, taboo and complex social issues with simplicity, sensitivity and surprising accessibility. mike brilliantly uses eloquence in the face of tragedy and humor amid horror to bring us a...
