“'Emma's Table' serves up a...filling feast...This character cooks with both spice and comedy…[A] touchingly bittersweet comedy of modern urban existence......anyone who can build nail-biting suspense out of a sunday dinner gone horribly wrong is deserving of praise..." (Link to article)
USA TODAY
JULY 31, 2008

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NEWSDAY
AUGUST 31, 2008

“Mr. Galanes, in this unlikely act of empathetic imagining, has created a heroine not only capable of but also deserving of kindness."
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THE NEW YORK SUN
JULY 28, 2008

“This summer’s delicious read!”
VOGUE
AUGUST, 2008

HOT TYPE: “Philip Galanes sets EMMA’S TABLE .”
VANITY FAIR
AUGUST, 2008

ESSAY "This One's For Martha"  (Link to article)
HUFFINGTON POST
AUGUST 4, 2008

INTERVIEW "Author Philip Galanes Finds Writing a Form of Therapy" (Link to article) 
REUTERS
JULY 24, 2008

BOOK RELEASE FEATURE IN ELLE DECOR (Link to article)
ELLE DECOR
October, 2008

MEMO PAD (Link to article)
WOMEN'S WEAR DAILY
JULY 30, 2008

REVIEW (Link to article)
OK! MAGAZINE
AUGUST 11, 2008

REVIEW (Link to article)
THE EAST HAMPTON STAR
October 30, 2008

INTERVIEW (Link to article)
DAN'S PAPERS
AUGUST 1, 2008

INTERVIEW (Link to article)
HAMPTONS COTTAGES AND GARDENS
AUGUST 1, 2008

"EMMA’S TABLE is a marvel: a whip-smart juggling act, as light as meringue, with a perfectly tender heart. It's a sharply-written story of the forgiveness we need to give and receive to let love into our lives, and its touching spell lasts long after the final page."
Ayelet Waldman, author of LOVE AND OTHER IMPOSSIBLE PURSUITS

"EMMA'S TABLE is a charming urban fairy tale about characters who actually learn from their mistakes. Philip Galanes has written a sweet, sly comedy of manners with an oddly familiar and slightly notorious figure at its center."
Tom Perrotta, best-selling author of LITTLE CHILDREN and THE ABSTINENCE TEACHER

"Sophisticated, witty, and fun, EMMA’S TABLE had me hooked from the first page, and smiling through the very last. Philip Galanes serves up a pitch-perfect comedy of manners with a deft and elegant touch."
Holly Peterson, best-selling author of THE MANNY