"Swings with the poetry of slang, bop talk and a solo scat singer traversing 47 miles of barbed wire with a cobra snake for a necktie."–
Rolling Stone "Ishmael Reed is a most talented humorist and possessor of a powerfully antic and lyric imagination. . . .
Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down should be read as hard evidence of Reed's uncommon talent."–
New Yorker "
Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down is a full blown 'horse opera, ' a surrealistic spoof of the Western with Indian chiefs aboard helicopters, stagecoaches and closed circuit TVs, cavalry charges of taxis."–
New York Review of Books
