From Glenn Reynolds – Instapundit blogger, columnist, and law professor at University of Tennessee College of Law:
From Roger L. Simon – screenwriter, founder of Pajamas Media, editor-at-large of Epoch Times, and author of eleven novels and two non-fiction books:

Gerard Van der Leun’s THE NAME IN THE STONE is an extraordinary collection, among the most compelling and insightful essays anyone has written about our bewildering era.

From Max Cossack, novelistFrom

From Max Cossack – novelist:

As I read these essays, some of them for the first time, some of them favorites I have read before, I am struck again by the humanity, wit, and intelligence of the man who wrote them. They deserve to be gathered in this book and read again.

From Susan Vass – aka Ammo Grrrll and Friday guest columnist on Power Line:

The first thing I ever read by Gerard Van der Leun was his perfect parody of Ginsberg’s “Howl”, and howl I did. In subsequent daily visits to his beautiful blog, I never came away without feeling elevated, blessed, and grateful. What leapt out at a reader were not just his brilliance and eloquence – there are a lot of smart, excellent writers – but his humility and humanity.