"Stop All the Clocks is a cloak-and-dagger thriller reminiscent of Graham Greene and William Gibson–a nimble novel brimming with big ideas, a summer page-turner whose intrigue lies in how technological progress interfaces with human hubris."
–Holiday Dmitri, Los Angeles Review of Books "
Stop All the Clocks is a first-rate techno-thriller–sharp, urgent, and extremely timely."
–Matthew Binder, X-Ray Lit Mag "Kumin's debut is a meditative, poetic novel about time, grief and the modern-life moments that define us . . . in ones and zeroes."
–Rome News Tribune "Kumin handles the genre elements with aplomb and without condescension, giving us chases, murders, twists, and cliffhangers, not to mention a cast of comic grotesques, amid the glamor of the lonely city. Serious writers have always used this type of genre fiction, though, as a vehicle for something else . . . . Kumin has . . . reconceived the novel not as an exquisitely made
objet d'art but rather as a technology for personal exploration and the conveyance of philosophy."
–John Pistelli, author of Major Arcana "Like if Thomas Pynchon watched
Girls–an elegy for our glitchy, over-connected souls. Every line hums. Noah Kumin's debut is a wired, weird, wonderful thing that may outlive us all."
–Madeline Cash, author of Earth Angel "Kumin did the impossible: he wrote a melancholic, relentless, wry, brazenly poetic chronicle of love and death in the time of AI/techbro cholera. The mystical Mona Veigh is unforgettable–a haunted, haunting Clarice Starling for our dark, magical time."
–Bruce Wagner "Noah Kumin is a powerhouse of contemporary thinking about literary writing and
Stop All the Clocks is the evidence that he can write it extremely well too. What an auspicious debut, both unusual and uncompromising."
–Rick Moody, author of Garden State "From the very first, there's a bite to Noah Kumin's
Stop All the Clocks. In equal measure, the book skewers and consecrates the world, and Mona Veigh is a character for the ages. Kumin has written a novel of the moment that also feels imperishable: in the universality of its concerns, in its up-to-date fears, in the sheer elegance of its observations. Plus it's a page turner."
–Darin Strauss, author of The Queen of Tuesday and Half a Life "An engrossing, chilling literary thriller in which poetry and technology clash over what it is to be human."
–Ewan Morrison, author of How to Survive Everything and For Emma "In
Stop All the Clocks, Noah Kumin creates a modern murder mystery, combining a dash of science fiction with a whiff of modernism–Neal Stephenson meets Italo Calvino. Kumin deftly uses Mona's paranoia to lead readers into a creepy high-tech whodunit that satisfies both as a mystery and a wry commentary on the claustrophobic effects of technology."
–K.S. Haddock, author of Imagine My Surprise! (coming soon from Heresy Press) "Equal parts Franzen and Le Carre,
Stop All the Clocks blends literary hipness with page-turning plotting. Kumin's respect for the powers of the classic novel are a rare treat in 2025!"
–Carlos Dengler
