Sam Sacks, the fiction editor of the WSJ, includes Fire Year in a review of three works of “religiously inflected” fiction. Fiction Chronicle- Behind Closed Doors – WSJ.com

I’m thrilled that Greenwell called the title story “among the best stories I’ve read all year.”  And I love that the stories remind him of Malamud, whose fable-like tales have had a big influence on mine. http://www.towleroad.com/2013/11/jason-k-friedmans-fire-year-book-review.html

Writing about Fire Year, this smart, sexy gay-lit blog calls it “a gift to find someone writing so intelligently about gay lives,” but I’m the one who feels rewarded, not to mention honored and moved. http://bandofthebes.typepad.com/bandofthebes/2013/11/fire-year-.html  

This cool, great-looking book blog includes an excerpt from the book and a semi-cheeky “micro-interview” with me.  

I’m psyched that Publishers Weekly chose Fire Year as one of 35 small-press books to watch for this fall. Read the Publishers Weekly – Big Indie Books of Fall 2013 In the listing, just one book separates Fire Year from Sugar, porn star Jenna Jameson’s fiction debut.

Well, I’d never heard of the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Round Table of the American Library Association, but I’m glad it exists!  Glad too they nominated Fire Year for their Over the Rainbow Book List.