"His is a bold and free interpretation of American life. . . . New York Madness does not deal with the silk-hatted and Paris gowned set, but with the girls and men of the seven million who live and love, told largely in their own racy lingo. It is a cross section of metropolitan life. Maxwell Bodenheim's followers are certain to welcome it."

- Dayton Daily News, January 26, 1934

"It is obvious that the author had difficulty keeping his talents as a propagandist subjugated, but none the less he has succeeded, and the story, daring and sordid as it is, has color, vigor and force."

- The New Books in Review, September 23, 1933

"He has overtaken Honoré Balzac at last and is now treading on the heels of Guy de Maupassant. . . . Bodenheim has his district dead to rights."

- Brooklyn Daily Eagle, August 30, 1933

"If you like 'naughty' books, then New York Madness with its story of two rather sleazy young women and their experiences with their boy friends will give you your money's worth. That's precisely what the author intended. . . . In a sense, this book is something of an object lesson. It neither is nor is not pornographic. To those who prefer their erotics straight, it will be as unsatisfactory as it will be to the prudes."

- Richmond Times-Dispatch, September 3, 1933

"Gay gals and tough gents scurry through this new book by Maxwell Bodenheim in search of what they take to be 'life, ' and the study of their antics makes absorbing reading under the author's inspired guidance. . . . As in all of Mr. Bodenheim's novels, he is frank in his dealings with the tangled situations which arise, and timorous readers may as well pass the volume by. They might not share the author's enthusiasm for unvarnished narrative concerning the lives of those who fill the pages of New York Madness."

- The Atlanta Journal, September 10, 1933

"In these torrid adventures of Alicia in Gangland and Mona in Bohemia, you are presented with Mr. Bodenheim's mad metropolis as setting for a variety of erotic episodes and quaint sentimentalities. . . . Obviously, this is not a book for children; nor, for that matter, for adults."

- The Los Angeles Times, September 24, 1933

"The book is sordid but well written. The characterization, conversation and incidents all blend smoothly into the murky background of night life among the lower class of New Yorkers. Bodenheim writes consistently and with that daring which stories of the exposé type require. A story such as this might advisably display a 'Minors not admitted' placard, but those who have reached the age of indiscretion might profit by its revelation of the low wages of sin."

- The Oregon Daily Journal, September 10, 1933

"If the life of the denizens of New York's average apartments is as vicious and as hard as Maxwell Bodenheim would have you believe in New York Madness, thank Heaven for the great northwest. . . . It's exceedingly disgusting in places-too many places-and it's far from convincing."

- The Minneapolis Star, August 24, 1933

"Few persons know New York as Maxwell Bodenheim and few who do write about it with his flair for color and sensation. His New York is raw and realistic. It's this New York of strange colors and strange people, brilliance, sophistication, boldness, racketeering, dancing, recklessness that serves as the background for this new novel."

- The Sunday Oregonian, October 8, 1933

"Maxwell Bodenheim to me is the most objectionable writer living."

- The World and All, September 9, 1933