Jacques Servin is without peer in the pure inventiveness of his language. His voice, vision, wit, and charm are absolutely unique in contemporary American writing. Like Donald Barthelme before him, Servin is a gypsy original, always startling, always lively, usually hilarious. Mermaids for Attila immediately established Jacque Servin as "a significant and very original writer," in the words of Ron Sukenick. He divides his time between San Francisco, New York, and Europe.