**“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 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. ...

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. ...

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 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...

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 ...

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...

A “stunning, at times shocking collection” (The Boston Globe) of linked stories following a cast of characters navigating bodies, queerness, power, and sex—with radical results—from the bestselling author of Housemates.“A book I have savored . . . exquisite.”—Roxane Gay, The Audacity“These interconnected stories blitzed my brain and gut. Prepare to be shaken.”—Kiese Laymon, author of Long Division...

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...

Acclaimed author Jade Song (Chlorine) returns with her latest literary exploration: a lyrical, poignant, and heartfelt novel about the meaning of love, friendship, debt, depression, and death in New York City—a coming-of-age for a new generation, in the vein of Sally Rooney and Ottessa Moshfegh.For as far back as she can remember, Vicky has been fascinated and obsessed with death as the only inevitable thing in life. From living above a Chinatown funeral p...