"The Toast is stupendous--as brief, urgent, and bracing as a punch to the face. It's gripping, funny, and unrelentingly bleak (in the best possible way). Matt Marinovich has such a sinister and uncompromising sensibility that one can feel a little morally compromised for enjoying his work so much. If that's the case, though, I must be a very bad person indeed, because I absolutely loved this book." -- Scott Smith, New York...