NIGHT TERRORS

PRESS

“Ashley’s voice is something like the hyper-literate cat who just ate the auto-asphyxiating canary: she’s biting and incisive, drawing personal anecdotes into sharp perspective.” -A (truly delightful) interview with The Rumpus

“It’s an embarrassing, and therefore impressive, debut, of a writer looking her subject in the eye and not blinking. […] In contrast to other confessional sex writing, Cardiff doesn’t feel like a shot bolt; her caustic voice, density of cognition, and tireless gag reflex (sorry) make it seem like she’s got plenty more where this came from.” -The Daily Beast

“Her tales of sexual coming-of-age are laugh-inducing, highly relatable, and appealing in their honesty.” -Bust Magazine (5/5 stars)

“For all the fun Cardiff makes of the idiocy of her youth, she astutely notes that ‘all feelings are at once more lucid and baroque when we’re seventeen.’ It’s to Cardiff’s credit that these feelings, no matter how overwrought they were at the time, are remembered here with humor, sensitivity, and wisdom.” -Publishers Weekly (starred review)

“A prodigious sense of humor helps these essays come across as something like a stand-up routine. […] In an enlightened world, this is the kind of reference material hospitals would hand to troubled teens and twentysomethings, or—better yet—new dads with daughters.” -Time Out New York (4/5 stars)

“A smart, absurdist book [for those] whose summer vacations are not complete without a new, hilariously irreverent, wickedly funny voice to keep them company.” -Flavorwire

”Night Terrors reminds us that we all used to be younger and dumber, but the education we got along the way was priceless, and hindsight can make it hilarious.“ -Biographile

”Swift, smart and barbed… Laugh-out-loud funny.“ -Mr. Porter

“Ashley Cardiff is an original voice on sex, dating, culture, and surviving youth, [taking] controversial and uncomfortable topics head-on, with brass and intelligence. [Night Terrors] bowls you over with laughter.” -Book Reporter