“In <i>Museum Visits</i>, Chevillard is at his best, spewing anxious observations of the everyday in shortform. . . . While deliriously funny, Chevillard’s short prose also palpitates from one anxious cogitation to another. . . . In his fluid translation, Daniel Levin Becker matches the minute tonal shifts. . . . The reader is elevated, planted in Chevillard’s unordinary perspective and given access to an inside joke told by an author of extraordinary wit.”—Bridget Peak, <i>Asymptote</i><br /><br />“A spellbinding essay collection that is as funny as it is unclassifiable. The brief pieces offer winking, curmudgeonly commentary. . . . Chevillard’s humor is a mix of Seinfeldian observation and Monty Python–esque zaniness. . . . These beguiling and genre-defying pieces elucidate the strangeness of the everyday.”—<i>Publishers Weekly</i><br /><br />“<i>Museum Visits</i> is a book of sheer exuberance, a delicious ten-course meal whipped up out of Chevillard’s fizzing, capacious, elegantly controlled delight in the world.”—Lauren Groff, author of <i>The Vaster Wilds</i><br /><br />“These improbable, oblique, razor-sharp and often hilarious miniatures seem to be about nothing very much. Don’t be taken in by appearances. Chevillard’s gem-like pieces, superbly translated by Daniel Levin Becker, bring to life a whole world, and its gently squinting observer.”—David Bellos, author of <i>Is that a Fish in Your Ear? Translation and the Meaning of Everything</i><br /><br />“Daniel Levin Becker is a magician, an innovator, an engineer: a virtuoso translator. I am in awe of what he has achieved here.”—Kate Briggs, author of <i>This Little Art</i><br /><br />