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"The state has found a voice, sometimes sweet, often acerbic, laced with the rue only a smart native son can bring to bear..."
 San Francisco Chronicle
"He has created a tradition from scratch..."
Los Angeles Times
"He writes with compassion, understanding and an ear for the many voices of the region.... He writes with tolerance about intolerance, with a sense of justice about injustice, and with humor that doesn't stoop to condescension."
Westways
"[Haslam] is the quintessential California writer,"
The Californians
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"Haslam has modes of talk down with precise variations of rhythm, dialect and accent...he entertains, but punches hard too."
Small Press Review
"Gerald Haslam's novel Masks is a work that extends Mark Twain's and John Steinbeck's line directly."
California English
"Haslam's essays touch on universal themes, but he stays rooted to the specific, and has a deft touch."
The Bloomsbury Review
"Country music set to prose."
The Nation
"The writer's writer."
Long Beach Press
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