Ron Kolm's Night Shift stands alongside other wage-slave masterpieces like Charles Bukowski's Factotum and Harvey Pekar's American Splendor. Winking and grinning in the face of punch-clock death, Kolm finds a way to somehow stay alive and even to eventually triumph. One senses in these moving and sometimes hilarious little vignettes that Kolm wrote them in flagrante dilecto; a gypsy moth blue collar poet-scholar recording his emergence from sooty cocoon to winging oracle of the smokestacks, junkyards, tenements and roads of the national creep-scape, - Alan Kaufman, author of Drunken Angel