Christine Smallwood’s fiction has appeared in The Paris Review, n+1, and Vice. Her reviews, essays, and cultural reporting have been published in many magazines, including The New Yorker, Bookforum, T: The New York Times Style Magazine, and The New York Times Magazine, where she is a contributing writer. She has also written the “New Books” column for Harper’s Magazine, where she is a contributing editor, and been an editor at The Nation. She has a PhD in English from Columbia University, is a founding faculty member of the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research, and is a fellow at the New York Institute for the Humanities.
“One of the wittiest, most deliciously farcical novels I’ve read in
a long time.”—Maureen Corrigan, NPR, Fresh Air
“Smallwood is . . . a delightfully stylish rambler; a conjurer of a
heightened, carefully choreographed version of consciousness.
Reading her is like watching an accomplished figure skater doing a
freestyle routine.”—John Williams, The New York Times
“This book made me laugh out loud.”—The New York Review of
Books
“[An] excellent debut.”—Sam Sacks, The Wall Street Journal
“Hilarious, recognizable, and helplessly wise—a perfect foil for
its namesake.”—Rivka Galchen, author of Little Labors
“Brilliant and pleasurable, funny and dark, cerebral and
visceral—a must-read for the bleeding human survivors of the modern
age.”—Melissa Broder, author of The Pisces and Milk Fed
“Smallwood’s achievement is to describe, with humor and precision,
the affective conditions—what Dorothy’s students might call the
‘vibe’—of a generation living at the end of the end of history but
with very little sense of the future.”—Maggie Doherty, The
Nation
“Impossibly good, fizzy like a freshly shaken soda can . . .
near-perfection. God, can Smallwood write.”—The Believer
“Wholly original, ultra-precise and very funny... the perfect book
for anyone who—consciously or not—narrativizes their life, and
sometimes gets filled with an overwhelming sense
of dread that they’ve lost the plot.”—Refinery29
“An intellectual page-turner that commands one’s attention
completely from the first sentence to the final line. . . urgent,
essential reading for our troubling times.”—Andrew Martin, author
of Early Work and Cool for America
“Smart, sharp, often very funny. . . absolutely
fearless.”—Christopher Beha, author of The Index of
Self-Destructive Acts
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