On a cold, rainy night, an aging bachelor named George Ticknor prepares to visit his childhood friend Prescott, a successful man who is now one of the leading intellectual lights of their generation. With a hastily baked pie in his hands, and a lifetime of guilt and insecurity weighing upon his soul, he sets out for the Prescotts' dinner party--a party at which he'd just as soon never arrive. Distantly inspired by the real-life friendship between the great historian William Hickling Prescott and his biographer, Ticknor is a witty, fantastical study of resentment; and a biting history of a one-sided friendship.

Ticknor

Literature & Fiction

Sheila Heti

Contemporary

House of Anansi Pr

Featuring analysis of MFA vs. NYC literary cultures, pro-life vs. animal rights politics, the failure of California, the politics of white victimization, American elitism, and how an Indian management guru made his money. Also featuring fiction by Mathias Enard and Sheila Heti and four responses to Jonathan Franzen's Freedom.

n+1 Issue 10: Self-Improvement

Marco Roth

NIKIL SAVAL

Mark Greif

Benjamin Kunkel

Keith Gessen

Mathias Énard

Kristen Dombek

Daniel Albert

Richard Beck

Elizabeth Gumport

Bruce Robbins

Siddhartha, Deb

n+1 Foundation

The NSA would like to connect with you on LinkedIn. Sheila Heti's diary, clubbing for Christ. Rebecca Curtis with crazy fiction about lyme disease. Richard Beck reflects on the childcare sex abuse panic of the 1980s, and Barbara Vinken offers a theory of fashion below the waist. A stand Against the Rage Machine and the slow-burn incompetence of the NSA.

n+1 Issue 18: Good News

Rebecca Curtis

Jordan Kisner

Brandon Harris

Frank Guan

Jacob Shell

Barbara Vinken

Pure Colour

United States

Vintage Books Canada

Alphabetical Diaries

Knopf Canada

Pure Colour(ibd Exclusive)

Picador 04/29/2023

Pure Colour: the new novel from the author of Motherhood and How Should A Person Be?

Vintage

The Middle Stories

Literary

Astoria

Reeling from a failed marriage, Sheila, a twenty-something playwright, finds herself unsure of how to live and create. When Margaux, a talented painter and free spirit, and Israel, a sexy and depraved artist, enter her life, Sheila hopes that through close-sometimes too close-observation of her new friend, her new lover, and herself, she might regain her footing in art and life. Using transcribed conversations, real emails, plus heavy doses of fiction, the brilliant and always innovative Sheila Heti crafts a work that is part literary novel, part self-help manual, and part bawdy confessional. It's a totally shameless and dynamic exploration into the way we live now, which breathes fresh wisdom into the eternal questions: What is the sincerest way to love? What kind of person should you be?

How Should a Person Be?

Anansi Book Club

HARVILL/SECKER

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