NATIONAL BESTSELLER • “For anyone who has felt fate intervening on their TikTok feed” (USA Today) comes a “gothic horror story wrapped up in a mystery [with] much to say about Hollywood, social media, and the creator economy” (Los Angeles Times)“Here you’ll find that gothic horror, so often lurking in the dingy dark, can manifest also in the fluorescent world of the terminally online.”—NPRThe internet: You may ...

**"Highbrow, brilliant." --The Approval Matrix, New York magazineOne of Cosmopolitan's 12 Books You'll Be Dying to Read This SummerA Publishers Weekly Best Book of Summer 2020A Vulture Best Book of Summer 2020One of Refinery29's 25 Books You'll Want to Read This SummerAn Esquire Must-Read Book of Summer 2020A Book Riot Best Book of 2020 *so farThe female cofounders of a wellness start-up struggle to find...

Poems about pop culture, mortality, and the internet, written during the Coronavirus pandemic—for readers who are more likely to double-tap Instapoems than put their phone down long enough to read The Decameron.Catalyzed by sheltering in place and by a personal challenge to give up alcohol for thirty days, Leigh Stein, the poet laureate of The Bachelor, has written a twenty-first-century Decameron to frame modern fables. What to Miss ...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • “For anyone who has felt fate intervening on their TikTok feed” (USA Today) comes a “gothic horror story wrapped up in a mystery [with] much to say about Hollywood, social media, and the creator economy” (Los Angeles Times)“Here you’ll find that gothic horror, so often lurking in the dingy dark, can manifest also in the fluorescent world of the terminally online.”—NPRThe internet: You may ...

**"Highbrow, brilliant." --The Approval Matrix, New York magazineOne of Cosmopolitan's 12 Books You'll Be Dying to Read This SummerA Publishers Weekly Best Book of Summer 2020A Vulture Best Book of Summer 2020One of Refinery29's 25 Books You'll Want to Read This SummerAn Esquire Must-Read Book of Summer 2020A Book Riot Best Book of 2020 *so farThe female cofounders of a wellness start-up struggle to find...

'Funny about death, real about anxiety, witty about the things that worry us the most' Emma Gannon, author of Olive'So fundamentally kind that you can feel the warmth coming off each page' Rowan Hisayo Buchanan, author of Starling DaysMeet Gilda. She cannot stop thinking about death. Desperate for relief from her anxious mind and alienated from her repressive family, she responds to a flyer for free thera...

Includes a 2015 Derringer Award winning short story: "The Kaluki Kings of Queens."Come meet the relatives. As diverse in theme and mood as the city itself, these stories take us from from the explosive excitement of the New York City Marathon to a secret cellar in Queens, from the warmth of an immigrant culture to the moneyed New York art world, and from brutality and poverty to Wall Street's privileged thugs. What the families have in common is this: their lives ha...

Slices of life beyond the tourist's view. By turns funny, tough, and somber, the twenty-one helpings of New York attitude in Fresh Slices reveal neighborhoods both rich and poor, where oldtimers desperately protect their secrets and brand new arrivals indulge dangerous appetites. There is as much variety in tone and setting as in Gotham itself, and yet each of these crime stories also reflects the city's most infectious and unifying principle, that specia...

"[A] thoughtful and compelling elegy to a troubled man, a broken love, and a broken dream of the west."—Leslie Jamison, New York Times bestselling author of The Empathy ExamsAn MSN Best Book of 2016Set against the stark and surreal landscape of New Mexico, Land of Enchantment is a coming-of-age memoir about young love, obsession, and loss, and how a person can imprint a place in your mind f...