pAh, Ithaca! How well I remember the curves and angles of its streets, the times I rode on busses to listen to young people converse.... Z. K. Goat celebrates this small city and a famous traveler, giving us a day of courageous speculation, realism infused with magic.pp -Vladimir Nabokov April 22, 1899-July 2, 1977ppbrppbrppIn her 'temporary dwelling' the ghost of Penelope revises old poems and writes new ones, chronicling her history that so many others call mythology. Z. K. Goat makes me want to return and retreat to a room in Collegetown with pots of basil set on the fire escape outside.pp -Phyllis Janowitz March 9, 1930-August 17, 2014ppbrppIn Z. K. Goat's debut novella I can almost feel in the Pulitzer Prizewinning Novelist the power of the lake that inspired Ezra Cornell to found a university overlooking it. How often I myself slowly walked Seneca Street as I ruminated about language.pp -E. B. White July 11, 1899-October 1, 1985ppbrppThe owl is an excellent touch!pp -Alison Lurie