[6] Daniel D'Addario of Salon said the article upon which the book was based "sent shockwaves through the publishing industry".
[7] Calloway's writing has been championed by writer Tao Lin and is considered a staple of alternative literature.
"[9] Jacob M. Appel at Quarterly Conversation compared Calloway to Jane Austen's Marianne Dashwood and George Eliot's Dorothea Brooke.
[10] A writer in Bookforum described the controversy that greeted Calloway's debut, writing, "The initial publication of "adrien brody" on novelist Tao Lin's website Muumuu House heralded Calloway's arrival in the New York literary scene—as an author, but also as a phenomenon.
Brody was recognizable to insiders, and the ethics of Calloway's exposure were questioned, often within broader attacks on her sexual morality and provincial assessments of her craft.