"Solid, unsentimental storytelling..."
--Publisher's Weekly

"Filled with characters who could be the grand-children of Edmund White’s."
--Queerty

"A sparkling entry from a promising young queer author."
--ANX National

"Houck’s prose is strong and unapologetic, not shying away from either profanity or lyricism.  ...sexy, horrifying and sensitive in equal measures."
--Lambda Literary

"Brisk and buoyant, Yield is an engaging debut that captures big city hustle with small-town heart."
--Richard Labonte

"Yield is a subtle novel that creeps into your soul...a story of unexpectedly finding your place in the world."
--Emanuel Xavier

"Witty and wrenching, Yield is required reading for anyone who wants to know what it means to be young, gay and without a roadmap."
--Vestal McIntyre

"Yield is a dazzling and sometimes dangerous foray into post-queer realism."
--Charlie Vázquez

"...Literary, subtle and heartfelt poems..."
--John Stahl, Ganymede

"...if Ernest Hemingway and Zelda Sayer had status updates."
--Stephanie Hughes

-- From the New 4th of July

-- So Long, Ms. Rich

-- On Ani Difranco’s Dilate

-- A Song that Reminds You of Somewhere

-- Tom in Siena on The Nervous Breakdown

-- Can You Move the Vortex? on The Nervous Breakdown

-- Being Present

-- An Open Letter to New York State Senators Aubertine, Addabbo, Diaz, Huntley, Kruger, Monserrate, Onorato, and Sachowski

-- What Do You Want from Air Travel, or Miracles Do Happen

-- My Neighborhood, Circa 1991

-- What I Learned in 2008