Teddy Wayne sets his fourth novel, the darkly comic and emotionally intelligent Apartment, in 1996. Part of the historical novel's task is to look at the past not with nostalgia but with precision, and Apartment does this exactly. Beyond period details, though, the historical novel needs to give a sense for the talk and feel of the time - what could and couldn't be spoken of, what could and couldn't be imagined. And it's in this deeper re-creation that Wayne elevates Apartment from a convincing historical facsimile to a work of art…. [he] looks at it all - masculinity, literary ambition, our decade of free trade and liberalism triumphant - and finds the rot underneath.

The Boston Globe

There's perhaps no living writer better at chronicling the most crucial emotional flash points of the young modern male than Teddy Wayne… Wayne's knack for unpacking the fragility of masculinity continues to shine in his latest book, the slim, binge-worthy Apartment, especially when it's bundled up in themes of artistic worth and privilege.

The A.V. Club

It builds to a carefully seeded climax that will leave readers - and especially writers-queasy… subtly layered prose… its sobering climax is bound to stay with you long after you close the door on Apartment.

NPR

Apartment is about a volatile friendship between two men… Wayne, in the terrible-roommates tradition of Sam Shepard and Miranda July, rigorously draws out their dance of attraction and repulsion.

The New York Times Book Review

The best jokes make you laugh and feel sad all at once, and that….describes my response to Teddy Wayne's fourth novel, Apartment, which takes on the subject of male friendship-and indeed, quite a bit more…. A taut story that the author bravely sees through to its inevitable end.

The New Republic

Wayne's attention to detail and language serves almost as a surgeon's scalpel, gently peeling back layered topics - friendship, class, sexuality - to reveal an engrossing survey of male insecurity and frailty…Carefully written and evocative with an airtight plot.

Salon