I don't know if I'd pin one genre label to Rich's writing.  His work is daring and inventive literary fiction, with mainstream appeal.  His tone is introspective, mysterious, beguiling, dark, humorous, composed, yet provocative.  
—John McManus, Whiting Award Recipient and Author of Fox Tooth Heart

Like that of Don DeLillo or Joy Williams, the work of Richard Leise hums with mystery and an almost cosmic kind of power. With a sincerity rarely found in contemporary literature, Leise explores the mysteries of the human experience in an increasingly uncanny world. He does this in exquisitely crafted, winding sentences that can encompass whole lives or spiral into the deepest moments of personal revelation. This is writing that lets the numinous shine through the seams of the everyday, writing that reveals to us secrets we never knew we had.
—Kent Wascom, Author of The New Inheritors