Xtra and Hour Reviews!

Xtra Magazine, Toronto’s Gay and Lesbian Biweekly
January 18, 2007
Pulling down the Watchtower
Visceral teen drama set among Jehovah’s Witnesses
By Sandra Alland

“Montreal-based Cox is a wizard at character and dialogue. I was eventually drawn completely into Damian’s world, and didn’t look back. Cox knows how to write teen emotion and his prose has a sharp, poetic quality. His words bounce off the margins , then grind into your brain, painting pictures so visceral you can almost smell the boy sweat.”

“Tattoo This Madness In is a smartly penned slice of punk drama, a middle finger held high to mainstream society and writing. I can’t wait to see what Cox comes up with next.”

In Montreal's The Hour:

Inked beliefs
MJ Stone

"They're punk, they're filled with teenage angst, they're Jehovah's Witnesses gone wild. Tattoo This Madness In is a subversive ride into the heart of adolescent angst. An anti-Holden Caulfield, Damian Spitz is no catcher in the rye; on the contrary, he's torching the fields with gasoline. Hell-bent on Armageddon, Damian flips an anti-authoritarian finger at the jay-dub establishment, all the while corrupting its youth with forbidden sex, drugs, music and alcohol."

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