A love letter to pop music, American Spirits charts an icon’s fall—and an obsessive fangirl’s rise.One of Vulture’s Most Anticipated Books of 2026“A titillating romp!” —Booklist (starred review) • “I imagine the book as a Lynch film with a score by Lana Del Rey.” —Los Angeles TimesThirty-eight-year-old Blue Velour has finally achieved the critical acclaim she’s long been chasing. ...

**“Perceptive and witty—like a Sally Rooney novel set in Southern California.” —The Minnesota Star Tribune“It’s this author’s best work yet. A Sapphic roller-coaster ride.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)A controversial Los Angeles-based author attempts to revive her career and finally find true love in this hilarious nod to 1950s lesbian pulp fiction and Hollywood satire.**Having recently moved both herself and her formidable perfume bottle collec...

A bad lawyer pursues her dreams of viral rap stardom, at any cost.Prue is a thirty-year-old attorney who wants two things, the first is to live without psychotropic medication, and the second is to experience success as a rap artist. Her life is good on paper: she has an easy government job and a nice girlfriend who gets her in to all the right shows, but she wants to truly thrive.When Prue is introduced to music producer Jax Jameson, a human disco...

"A brutally funny and observant ride through astrology culture, love, and self-discovery."****—NYLON's Most Anticipated Books of 2022"A depressed Millennial astrologist, a self-hating lesbian with a rage (and drinking) problem, and profound questions of connection and destiny makeExaltedan unforgettable read. Clear your schedule and consult your horoscope because Anna Dorn's novel will make you cackle and gasp, and you won't be able to put it down....

Vagablonde is a darkly humorous, rollercoaster ride through the Los Angeles music scene about a woman who wants two things, the first is to live without psychotropic medication, and the second is to experience success as an artist. A cautionary tale about viral fame, Vagablonde speaks directly to our time in biting detail. Prue Van Teesen is thriving. That is, her life looks good on paper. She has an easy government job, a nice girlfriend, and a budding music career. When...

A follow-up to their runaway success Peach Pit: Sixteen Stories of Unsavory Women, editors Molly Llewellyn and Kristel Buckley return with Be Gay, Do Crime, a celebration of queer chaos from an all-queer author lineup featuring Myriam Gurba, Emily Austin, Alissa Nutting, and Francesca EkwuyasiA trans woman makes increasingly frequent hoax calls to a business where she's had a negative experience, watching the consequences with perverse joy. A group of agin...

Law school was never Anna Dorn's dream. It was a profession pushed on her by her parents, teachers, society... whatever. It's not the worst thing that can happen to a person; as Dorn says, law school was pretty "cushy" and mostly entailed wearing leggings every day to her classes at Berkeley and playing beer pong with her friends at night. The hardest part was imagining what it would be like to actually be a lawyer one day. But then she'd think of Glenn Close on Damages and Reese ...

**“Perceptive and witty—like a Sally Rooney novel set in Southern California.” —The Minnesota Star Tribune“It’s this author’s best work yet. A Sapphic roller-coaster ride.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)A controversial Los Angeles-based author attempts to revive her career and finally find true love in this hilarious nod to 1950s lesbian pulp fiction and Hollywood satire.**Having recently moved both herself and her formidable perfume bottle collec...

Law school was never Anna Dorn's dream. It was a profession pushed on her by her parents, teachers, society... whatever. It's not the worst thing that can happen to a person; as Dorn says, law school was pretty "cushy" and mostly entailed wearing leggings every day to her classes at Berkeley and playing beer pong with her friends at night. The hardest part was imagining what it would be like to actually be a lawyer one day. But then she'd think of Glenn Close on Damages and Reese ...

A love letter to pop music, American Spirits charts an icon’s fall—and an obsessive fangirl’s rise.One of Vulture’s Most Anticipated Books of 2026“A titillating romp!” —Booklist (starred review) • “I imagine the book as a Lynch film with a score by Lana Del Rey.” —Los Angeles TimesThirty-eight-year-old Blue Velour has finally achieved the critical acclaim she’s long been chasing. ...

Emily Forrest runs Exalted, the hottest astrology account on Instagram, from her studio apartment in Los Angeles. Burned out on meme-making and listicles, Emily's passion for astrology is waning despite her gift for deciphering the signs, until she comes across a birth-chart that could potentially change her mind. Beau Rubidoux's planets are aligned, each paired with its optimum sign—his chart is exalted. She decides that Beau, a well-connected photographer in Echo Park, could potentially ...

Welcome to Rivers Solomon's dark and wondrous Model Home, a new kind of haunted-house novel.The three Maxwell siblings keep their distance from the lily-white gated enclave outside Dallas where they grew up. When their family moved there, they were the only Black family in the neighborhood. The neighbors acted nice enough, but right away bad things, scary things—the strange and the unexplainable—began to happen in their house. Maybe it was some cosmic tria...