“Pop Thorndale is our contemporary American Everyman - ironic, mid-life, overweight, suburban, trying, as he ages, to find some meaning in what he knows has been an unremarkable and unheroic life.”
- Patricia Fargnoli

“The Meager Life and Modest Times of Pop Thorndale explores with great complexity and psychological richness one American man's inner life. Though the details of Pop Thorndale's life may on the surface appear "modest," the language Pfefferle uses is wonderful, weirdly quirky, fresh, and pleasurable."
  - Paisley Rekdal
 
"Like Prufrock with his thinning hair and meager hopes, Pop Thorndale is a character who, in his very ordinariness, holds up a mirror in which we recognize our fears and follies, our dreams and desires."
  - Beth Ann Fennelly
 
“Much more than a life of quiet desperation, Pop’s story is told with an appealing directness whose complexity sneaks up on you. His images and scenes are painfully precise, sometimes skin-crawlingly so, and frighten the heart.”
- James Cummins

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W.T. Pfefferle is the author of four books. In 2005 he published Poets on Place , a chronicle of his year-long trip around the country interviewing and photographing 62 American poets, including Mark Strand, Ri ta Dove, Denise Duhamel, David St. John, and others. He's also published his own poetry widely (Virginia Quarterly Review, Antioch Review, Nimrod, North American Review, Carolina Quarterly, Mississippi Review, and elsewhere). He's the 2006 winner of the Stevens Poetry Manuscript Contest, awarded yearly by the NFSPS .