Jere Krakoff

Prior to writing Something Is Rotten in Fettig (Anaphora), a humorous satirical novel about the criminal justice system, Jere Krakoff was a civil rights attorney. His second novel, The Chameleon Shuffle (Open Books), lampoons judges, lawyers, politicians, and all three branches of government. Some of his themes are rooted in his experiences and observations as staff counsel with the ACLU National Prison Project, the Lawyers Committee For Civil Rights Under Law, and the Pennsylvania Institutional Law Project. Others are solely derived from his offbeat imagination.

Something is Rotten in Fettig was a finalist in the 2015 Gival Press novel competition and has received favorable reviews in Kirkus Reviews, Midwest Review, and other publications. He is currently working on another satirical novel about the president of the fictitious Republic where his first two books were set.

Excerpts of early reviews of the novel include the following:

"[T]he uproarious novel is first and foremost a comedy, rife with absurdist humor...enough jabs at law and criminal justice to make a point, all packaged in a courtroom drama that's pure entertainment."

-Kirkus Reviews

“Something Is Rotten In Fettig wittily satirizes a legal system that is very similar to our own…this fast-paced work is filled with good writing, presented in highly readable prose…characters are well developed…very enjoyable…”

-Midwest Review (Posted on Compulsive Reader)

“Delightfully satirical, the author takes a jab at everything from judges to juries, to lawyers, to public manipulation and ignorance, oftentimes with hilarious results.”

-Manhattan Book Review

"[T]he novel is sort of Dickens by way of Woody Allen.”

-Pittsburgh City Paper