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Sara Levine – The Hitch

Sara Levine The Hitch review and information of the content of the novel by the American writer. Roxane Gay Books will publish the new Sara Levine novel, on January 13, 2026. 

Sara Levine The Hitch reviews

  • “I was slobberingly, tail-waggingly delighted to read The Hitch—which is one of the most wildly comedic and unhinged novels I have ever encountered, while at the same time also being deeply relatable and strangely emotionally accurate. Not only was I laughing on almost every page, I was reading parts of it aloud to anybody around me who would listen. Give this book a trophy. It’s perfect.” (Elizabeth Gilbert, author)
  • “A hilarious, madcap novel about our human obsession with getting life “right,” and how the best laid plans can go astray, especially when the dark haunted soul of a corgi gets involved. This is the book I’ll recommend to people as a test of their sense of humor: if they laugh at the corgi, the yogurt crisis, the hero who cannot recognize the obvious even when it’s chewing on her pant leg, then I’ll know we’re destined to be friends.” (Nathan Hill, author)
  • “Sara Levine’s long-awaited follow-up to cult classic Treasure Island!!! does not disappoint: we find in The Hitch a plot as dark and concise as those of Hilary Mantel’s early novels, but propelled by Levine’s signature prose, sharp and hilarious. In this pitch-perfect comedy of manners, Rose, equal parts Thomas Bernhard, Elaine Benes, and health guru, might be too well-informed to make an informed decision, but seeing her try is a true delight. A relentlessly funny novel about loneliness.” (Camille Bordas)

Sara Levine The Hitch

The Hitch

  • Author: Sara Levine (United States)
  • Book type: American novel
  • Publisher: Roxane Gay Books
  • To be released: 13 January 2026
  • Length: 304 pages
  • Format: hardcover / ebook
  • Prize: $ 27.00
  • Order book from: Amazon

Blurb of the novel by Sara Levine

From the author of the cult classic Treasure Island!!!, a delightfully unhinged comedy following a woman as she attempts to exorcise the spirit of a dead corgi from her nephew and renegotiate the borders of her previously rational world.

Rose Cutler defines herself by her exacting standards. As an anti-racist, Jewish secular feminist eco-warrior, she is convinced she knows the right way to do everything, including parent her six-year-old nephew Nathan. When Rose offers to look after him while his parents visit Mexico for a week, her brother and sister-in-law reluctantly agree, provided she understands the rules—routine, bedtime, homework—and doesn’t overstep. But when Rose’s Newfoundland attacks and kills a corgi at the park, Nathan starts acting strangely: barking, overeating, talking to himself. Rose mistakes this behavior as repressed grief over the corgi’s death, but Nathan insists he isn’t grieving, and the dog isn’t dead. Her soul leaped into his body, and now she’s living inside him. Now Rose must banish the corgi from her nephew before the week ends and his parents return to collect their child.

With the ferocious absurdity of Rachel Yoder’s Nightbitch and the dark, brazen humor of Melissa Broder’s Death Valley, The Hitch is a tantalizingly bizarre novel about loneliness, bad boundaries, and the ill-fated strategy of micromanaging everything and everyone around you.

Sara Levine is the author of the novel Treasure Island!!! and the short story collection Short Dark Oracles. Her essays, stories, and aphorisms have appeared in various magazines including The Iowa Review, Nerve, Conjunctions, Necessary Fiction, Sonora Review, and others. She holds a PhD in English from Brown University and teaches at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She lives in Chicago, Illinois.

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Gabriel Tallent – Crux

Gabriel Tallent Crux review and information of the content of new novel by the American writer. Penguin Fig Tree will publish the second Gabriel Tallent novel on February 5, 2026. Here you can read information about the content of the book, the author and the publication.

Gabriel Tallent Crux reviews

  • “Profound and stunning … It will make you question yourself and every one of your beliefs.” (Liz Nugent, author)
  • “One of the best novels I’ve ever read about friendship between a young man and a young woman … Exciting and tension filled.” (Stephen King)
  • “A breathtaking, thrilling and unforgettable story of friendship, of hopes and dreams against a reality so harsh it broke my hear.” (Chris Whitaker)

Gabriel Tallent Crux

Crux

  • Author: Gabriel Tallent (United States)
  • Book type: American novel
  • Publisher: Penguin Fig Tree
  • To be released: February 5, 2026
  • Length: 368 pages
  • Format: hardback /  ebook / audiobook
  • Prize: £ 18.99 /  £ 8.99 /  £ 16.00
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Blurb of the secons Gabriel Tallent novel

A heartstopping story of friendship, thrill-seeking and defying expectations: the explosive second novel from the bestselling author of My Absolute Darling.

Dan and Tamma are two Californian teenagers growing up dirt poor in the shadows of the Joshua Tree National Park, one of the world’s great rock climbing meccas. Their mothers had once been teenage waitresses and best friends until their paths diverged. Now Dan’s mother spends her days locked in her room, her dreams squandered and all her hopes pinned on getting her precociously clever son out of town and away to university.

Tamma’s mother holds no such ambition for her mouthy, snaggle-toothed, truant-playing, queer younger daughter, who everyone but Dan believes to be a troublemaker and no-hoper. But Tamma and Dan are fuelled by dreams of becoming legendary rock climbers, of devoting their lives to summiting the most challenging climbs and defying all the expectations, both good and bad, that others have for them.

Climbing, each morning at sun-up, on cliff faces that test their bodies to the limit, is where their friendship is forged. It’s also the one thing that gives them hope. But as their final year of high school unfolds and their climbs become ever more dangerous, and their home lives ever more extreme, it’s inevitable that something is going to snap.

Gabriel Tallent was born in 1987 in New Mexico and raised on the Mendocino coast by two mothers. He received his B.A. from Willamette University in 2010, and after graduation spent two seasons leading youth trail crews in the backcountry of the Pacific Northwest. In 2027 his debut novel My Absolute Darling was published. Tallent lives in Salt Lake City with his wife and three children.

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Ben Lerner – Transcription

Ben Lerner Transcription review and information of the content of new novel by the American author. Granta Books will publish the Ben Lerner novel, on April 9, 2026. Here you can read information about the content of the book, the author and the publication.

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  • Author: Ben Lerner (United States)
  • Book type: American novel
  • Publisher: Granta Books
  • To be released: April 9, 2026
  • Length: 144 pages
  • Format: hardback / ebook
  • Prize: £ 14.99
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Blurb of the new Ben Lerner novel

A writer returns to his college town, where he is to conduct what will be the final published interview with Thomas, his ninety-year-old mentor. But after he drops his smartphone in the hotel sink, he arrives at Thomas’s house with no recording device – a fact he is mysteriously unable to confess.

What unfolds from this dreamlike circumstance is both a brilliant meditation on those technologies that enrich and impoverish our connections to each other, that store and obliterate our memories, and a moving exploration of the relationships that make us who we are.

Ben Lerner was born February 4, 1979 in Topeka, Kansas. He has received fellowships from the Fulbright, Guggenheim, and MacArthur Foundations, and is the author of three internationally acclaimed novels, Leaving the Atocha Station, 10:04 and The Topeka School. He has published the poetry collections The Lichtenberg Figures, Angle of Yaw (a finalist for the National Book Award), Mean Free Path and No Art as well as the essay The Hatred of Poetry. Lerner lives and teaches in Brooklyn.

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Elizabeth Strout – The Things We Never Say

Elizabeth Strout The Things We Never Say review and information of the content of new novel by the American author. Random House will publish the Lionel Shriver novel on May 5, 2026. Here you can read information about the content of the book, the author and the publication.

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The Things We Never Say

  • Author: Elizabeth Strout (United States)
  • Book type: American novel
  • Publisher: Random House
  • To be released: May 5, 2026
  • Length: 224 pages
  • Format: hardback / ebook / audiobook
  • Prize: $ 29.00
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Blurb of the Elizabeth Strout novel

Pulitzer Prize–winning, #1 New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth Strout’s new novel tells the story of a chance incident that sparks a powerful realization in a beloved teacher’s life—a poignant meditation on loneliness, friendship, parenthood, and the importance of truth in a capsizing world.

Artie Dam is living a double life. He spends his days teaching history to eleventh graders, expanding their young minds, correcting their casual cruelties, and lending a kind word to those who need it most. He goes to holiday parties with his wife of three decades, makes small talk with neighbors, and, on weekends, takes his sailboat out on the beautiful Massachusetts Bay. He is, by all appearances, present and alive. But inside, Artie is plagued by feelings of isolation. He looks out at a world gone mad—at himself and the people around him—and turns a question over and over in his mind: How is it that we know so little about one another, even those closest to us?

And then, one day, Artie learns that life has been keeping a secret from him, one that threatens to upend his entire world. Once he learns it, he is forced to chart a new course, to reconsider the relationships he holds most dear—and to make peace with the mysteries at the heart of our existence.

Elizabeth Strout, as we have come to expect, delivers a moving exploration of the human condition—one that brims with compassion for each and every one of her indelible characters. With exquisite prose and profound insight, The Things We Never Say takes one man’s fears and loneliness and makes them universal. And in the same breath, captures the abiding love that sustains and holds us all.

Elizabeth Strout was born january 6, 1956 in Portland, Maine. She is the Pulitzer prize-winning author of My Name is Lucy Barton, Anything is Possible, Oh William!, Amy and Isabelle, Abide With Me, The Burgess Boys, Olive Kitteridge, and Olive, Again. She has been nominated for the PEN/Faulkner Award, the Orange Prize and the Booker Prize. She lives in Maine.

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George Saunders – Vigil

George Saunders Vigil review and information of the content of the new novel by the American author. Bloomsbury Publishing will publish novel by George Saunders, on January 27, 2026. Here you can read information about the content of the book, the author and the publication.

George Saunders Vigil reviews

  • “Exquisitely strange and beautiful, devastating, and so, so funny. Nobody but George Saunders writes like this.” (Meg Mason)
  • “He will be read long after these times have passed.” (Zadie Smith)
  • “Openness has long been a hallmark of Saunders’ fiction, and it’s on full display in this elegant and subtle book.” (Kirkus)

George Saunders Vigil

Vigil

  • Author: George Saunders (United States)
  • Book type: American novel
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury
  • To be released: January 27, 2026
  • Length: 192 pages
  • Format: hardcover / ebook / audiobook
  • Prize: £ 18.99
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Blurb of the George Saunders novel

What a lovely home I found myself plummeting toward…

Not for the first time – in fact, for the 343rd time – Jill ‘Doll’ Blaine finds herself crashing down to earth, head-first, rear-up, to accompany her latest charge into the afterlife. She soon realises however that this man is not quite like the others.

For powerful oil tycoon K.J. Boone will not be consoled, because he has nothing to regret. He lived a big, bold life, and the world is better for it… isn’t it?

As death approaches, a cast of worldly and otherworldly visitors arrive. Crowds of people and animals – alive and dead – materialise, birds swarm the dying man’s room, and associates from decades past show up, all clamouring for a reckoning.

In this electric novel brimming with explosive imagination, George Saunders confronts the biggest issues of our time with his trademark humour and warmth, spinning a tale that encompasses life and death, good and evil, and the inevitable question: who else could we be but exactly who we are?

George Saunders is born December 2, 1958 in Amarillo, Teax. He is the author of thirteen books, including the novel Lincoln in the Bardo, which won the Booker Prize in 2017, and five collections of stories including Tenth of December, which was a finalist for the National Book Award, and the recent collection Liberation Day (selected by former President Obama has one of his ten favourite books of 2021). Three of Saunders’ books –Pastoralia, Tenth of December, and Lincoln in the Bardo – were chosen for the New York Times’ list of the 100 Best Books of the 21st Century. Saunders hosts the popular Story Club on Substack, which grew out of his book on the Russian short story, A Swim in a Pond in the Rain. In 2013, he was named one of the world’s 100 Most Influential People by Time magazine. He teaches in the creative writing program at Syracuse University.

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Rebecca Kauffman – The Reservation

Rebecca Kauffman The Reservation review and information of the content of the new novel by the American author. Counterpoint Press will publish novel by Rebecca Kauffmann, on February 24, 2026. Here you can read information about the content of the book, the author and the publication.

Rebecca Kauffman The Reservation reviews

  • “A restaurant-based mystery reveals more than just the culprit in this sprightly drama … A tender tale that seeks the ‘immeasurable satisfaction’ of an ordinary job well-done. In what is largely a light and funny novel, Kauffman nevertheless touches some of the deeper mysteries of the human condition: desire, longing, and an inchoate sense that there is something larger than our circumstances which binds us all together. A book that proves light touches can leave lasting impressions.” (Kirkus Reviews)
  • “One thing I love about fiction is that it can take you anywhere. For instance, an entire novel can take off when a whole bunch of steak are stolen from a restaurant refrigerator. That this relatively small theft can change the trajectory of people’s lives. With The Reservation, her sixth novel, Rebecca Kauffman has proven herself to be a master of documenting ordinary life—revealing how complicated, rich, puny, funny, beautiful, and absolutely bittersweet it can be.” (Marcy Dermansky, author of Hot Air)

Rebecca Kauffman The Reservation

The Reservation

  • Author: Rebecca Kauffman (United States)
  • Book type: American novel
  • Publisher: Counterpoint Press
  • To be released: February 24, 2026
  • Length: 272 pages
  • Format: hardcover / ebook
  • Prize: $ 27.00 / $ 14.99
  • Order book from: Amazon / Bol

Blurb of the new Rebecca Kauffmann novel

The Reservation explores the loves and labors of an ensemble of more than a dozen restaurant workers as they strive to get a perfect meal to the table.

On the morning of the most important booking in the long history of the celebrated restaurant, Aunt Orsa’s erupts into chaos with the discovery that twenty-two rib eye steaks have been stolen. Hers is the most august of fine-dining establishments in this Midwestern college town, and tonight Orsa is set to host a large party honoring a very special guest—a bestselling author of national renown.

And what’s up with the recent spate of online reviews, from insulting to frankly terrible? Is Orsa, who wants only to be loved, being sabotaged on several fronts? No one is above suspicion, not the Mennonite baker nor the tattooed hard-ass chef de cuisine. Could the culprit be among the servers, or even the inexperienced undergrad working as hostess?

Who aside from Rebecca Kauffman—with her talent for portraying such abundant and sympathetic characters—could write with the wit and energy needed to launch all these various individuals whirling through their days with such complex and interactive choreography?

Like the works of the mystery guest, The Reservation is a dynamic and captivating story that shows us what it takes to get a beautiful meal to the table.

Rebecca Kauffmann received her MFA in creative writing from New York University. She is the author of Another Place You’ve Never Been, which was long-listed for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, The Gunners, which received the Premio Tribùk dei Librai, The House on Fripp Island, Chorus, and most recently, I’ll Come to You. Originally from rural northeastern Ohio, Kauffman now lives in Virginia.

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Eshani Surya – Ravishing

Eshani Surya Ravishing review and information of the content of the debut novel by the Indian American writer. Grove Atlantic will publish the first Eshani Surya novel, on November 11, 2025. 

Eshani Surya Ravishing review

  • “Ravishing is a marvel of a debut that hums with the ache of becoming—a place where even the mirror is a battleground and every shimmer of beauty carries the weight of longing: for love, for a face we can call our own, and for a world less cruel. Surya expertly reminds us that even though the body remembers grief and abandonment, there can also be a chance to bloom.” (Aimee Nezhukumatathil, author)
  • “This debut is thoughtful in its handling of tricky themes of identity, belonging, and, perhaps most compellingly, the intersection of wellness culture and chronic illness. Surya handles this latter with unflinching—even discomfiting—clarity. A speculative take on the all-too-real rot at the heart of the beauty and wellness industry.” (Kirkus Reviews)
  • “How far will you go to keep running from yourself? Eshani Surya’s Ravishing takes this question to new heights, conjuring a dazzling dystopia even as it points a hard finger at our present. You will never look in the mirror the same way again.” (Mira Jacob, author)

Eshani Surya Ravishing

Ravising

  • Author: Eshani Surya (United States)
  • Book type: debut novel
  • Publisher: Grove Atlantic
  • Released: 11 November 2025
  • Length: 320 pages
  • Format: hardback / ebook
  • Prize: $ 28.00
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Blurb of the debut novel by Eshani Surya

A provocative, razor-sharp novel about two Indian American siblings caught in the clutches of a beauty tech company, Ravishing is an incisive portrait of a predatory industry and its dangerous ability to capitalize on our deepest insecurities. Full of heart and vulnerability, Eshani Surya’s dazzling debut shines a light on the dark enticements of wellness culture and the ill-fated pursuit of perfection.

For teenage Kashmira, it’s painful to look in the mirror; she has her father’s face, and every feature is a reminder of his abandonment. When a friend introduces her to Evolvoir, a beauty product that changes users’ features, Kashmira is quickly seduced by its ability to erase the triggers of her grief. Meanwhile, at Evolvoir corporate, Kashmira’s estranged brother Nikhil sees the product as an opportunity to make a difference, but is quickly mired in complicity as reports surface of severe side effects in some users. As Kashmira becomes more dependent on the escape the product offers, she is hospitalized with inexplicable symptoms and must negotiate the constraints of her new reality, while Nikhil uncovers a vicious truth that forces him to decide where his loyalties lie.

Deftly excavating the repercussions of living in white spaces, and fearlessly examining the realities of what it means to live with chronic illness,

Eshani Surya is a chronically ill South Asian writer living in Philadelphia. She holds an MFA from the University of Arizona, and is a 2022 Asian Women Writer’s Workshop mentee, a 2022 Kenyon Review Writer’s Workshop scholarship recipient, and a 2021 Mae Fellowship recipient. Ravishing is her first book.

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Lori Rader-Day – Wreck Your Heart

Lori Rader-Day Wreck Your Heart review and information of the content of the new crime novel by the American author. Minotaur Books will publish the new Lori Rader-Day novel, on January 6, 2026. Here you can read information about the content of the book, the author and the publication.

Lori Rader-Day Wreck Your Heart reviews

  • “Lori Rader Day is one of the most creative–and boldest–voices in contemporary crime fiction. She constantly explores new narratives and new viewpoints. Wreck Your Heart is one of her best novels yet.” (Sara Paretsky)
  • “Wise-cracking and wonderful, Philip Marlowe meets VI Warshawski. A love letter to country music and to Chicago, but very much more than that. Nobody does strong women better than Rader-Day.” (Ann Cleeves)
  • “Lori Rader-Day’s writing is phenomenal. Dahlia Devine has a voice so unique, clear, and strong, she’ll break your heart. This book absolutely sings.” (Elle Cosimano)

Lori Rader-Day Wreck Your Heart

Wreck Your Heart

  • Author: Lori Rader-Day (United States)
  • Book type: American crime novel
  • Publisher: Minotaur Books
  • Released: January, 2026
  • Length: 352 pages
  • Format: paperback / ebook / audiobook
  • Prize: $ 29.00 / $ 14.99 / $ 26.99
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Blurb of the new Lori Rayder-Day crime novel

From award-winning author Lori Rader-Day, Wreck Your Heart is an engaging, “wisecracking and wonderful” crime novel with a big heart, about a country and midwestern singer out to catch her big break before family—or murder—wrecks everything.

Dahlia “Doll” Devine had the kind of hardscrabble beginning that could launch a thousand broken-hearted country songs, but now she’s the star of her own stage at McPhee’s Tavern. As part of Chicago’s—yes, Chicago’s—country music scene, Dahlia is an up-and-coming singer in spangles and boots of classic country tunes. Up and coming, that is, until her boyfriend Joey up and went, taking the rent money with him.

So Dahlia is back to square one, relying on Alex McPhee—again. Alex helped her out of a bad situation when she was a kid living rough with her mother. Now he’s part landlord, part band booster, all-around rescuer. It’s just that Dahlia wishes she didn’t keep giving him reasons to have to do it.

Just as Dahlia suspects she’s scraped rock bottom, the mother she hasn’t spoken to in twenty years shows up with something to say. The next morning, a distraught young woman arrives at the bar, asking after her missing mother—Dahlia’s mother, too, even if the missing suburban PTA mom the girl describes sounds pretty different from the one who let Dahlia down all those years ago.

Though no one is using the word sister any time soon, Dahlia lets herself be drawn into reuniting the family that might have been hers. But when a body is discovered outside McPhee’s Tavern, the crime threatens not just the place Dahlia has made into a home, but everything she’s believed about her past, her dreams for the future, and the people she was just, maybe, beginning to let into her heart.

Lori Rader-Day was born March 21, 1973 in Lebanon, Indiana. She is the Edgar Award−nominated and Agatha, Anthony, and Mary Higgins Clark Award−winning author of Death at Greenway, The Lucky One, Under a Dark Sky, The Day I Died and others. Lori cochairs the crime fiction readers’ event Midwest Mystery Conference and teaches creative writing at Northwestern University. She lives in Chicago with her husband, Greg, and their dog.

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Aja Gabel – Lightbreakers

Aja Gabel Lightbreakers review en information about the new novel by the American author. Riverhead Books will publish the second Aja Gabel novel, on November 4, 2025. Here you can read information about the content of the book, the author and the publication.

Aja Gabel Lightbreakers reviews

  • “Compassionate and prismatic, an intellectual adventure as well as a deeply human meditation on memory, family, and reinvention. Aja Gabel’s second novel is my favorite kind: soulful science fiction that speaks to the mind as well as the heart.” (Chloe Benjamin, author of The Immortalists)
  • “Exists in a category all its own: a novel about grief, ambition, and love that is somehow both gripping and deeply felt, as breath-taking as it is mind-bending. Aja Gabel’s prose is like music, vivid with wisdom, curiosity, and emotion.” (Rachel Khong, author of Real Americans)
  • “Gabel beautifully explores the ways the past echoes endlessly in the present and into the future—and the unimaginable lure of being with the ones we love no matter the cost. A poignant and sharp novel about love, loss, and finding light in the darkness.” (Kirkus Reviews)

Aja Gabel Lightbreakers

Lightbreakers

  • Author: Aja Gabel (United States)
  • Book type: American novel
  • Publisher: Riverhead Books
  • To be released: November 4, 2025
  • Length: 332 pages
  • Format: paperback / ebook
  • Prize: $ 30.00
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Blurb of the new Aha Gabel Novel

What would you give to relive the past?

Maya, an artist, and Noah, a quantum physicist, share an insatiable curiosity about the world. But their happy marriage has a shadow over it: Serena, the child Noah had with his first wife, who died before she turned four.

When Noah is invited by the Janus Project to unravel the secrets of time travel, he jumps at the opportunity. At a laboratory deep in the Texas desert, he begins participating in a dangerous experiment that could result in something he thought impossible: seeing his daughter again.

Meanwhile, Maya embarks on a journey back to her own past in Japan, and to a formative lover who once shattered her heart. As Noah and Maya grapple with hope and despair, new information emerges that the experiments might not be exactly what they seems.

A heartachingly moving novel, Lightbreakers plumbs the mysteries of human connection, and explores how to love in a world where time is both a healer and a thief.

Aja Gabel is the author of the novel The Ensemble. Her prose can be found in The Cut, the Los Angeles Times, Oprah Daily, and elsewhere. She studied writing at Wesleyan University and the University of Virginia, and has a PhD in Literature and Creative Writing from the University of Houston. Aja has been the recipient of awards from Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. Her short story “Little Fish” was adapted into a feature film, and she has written extensively for television. She lives and writes in Los Angeles.

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Davey Davis – Casanova 20 or, Hot World

Davey Davis Casanova 20 or, Hot World review and information of the content of the new novel by the American author. Catapult will publish the new Davey Davis novel, on December 2, 2025. Here you can read information about the content of the book, the author and the publication.

Davey Davis Casanova 20 or, Hot World reviews

  • “A story that digs unflinchingly into the intimacy of both sex and illness … Davis’s characters are so haunted by the past that it often becomes syntactically interwoven with the present … Casanova 20 achieves this interjectory effect, punching through the well-charted terrains of sex, death, art, pleasure, and beauty with hedonistically lived-in details and incisive observations that rub the reader right up against the skin and the bedpan.” (Annie Lou Martin, The Whitney Review)
  • “The novel’s conceit is big, its prose attention-grabbing, its sexual joie de vivre propulsive, but, in the end, the most compelling part is the tender nuance of its central characters as they love both each other and the world. The result is a rare gem of a book—afraid of neither joy nor sorrow and patient enough to find the human heart inside all its gorgeous language. A show-stopping novel that carries within it a quiet, steadfast heart.” (Kirkus Review)

Davey Davis Casanova 20 or, Hor World

Casanova 20

or, Hot World

  • Author: Davey Davis (United States)
  • Book type: American novel
  • Publisher: Catapult
  • Released: December 2, 2025
  • Length: 304 pages
  • Format: paperback / ebook
  • Prize: $ 17.95 / $ 12,99
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Blurb of the new Davey Davis novel

A novel about art, desire, and mortality, Casanova 20: Or, Hot World follows a young man isolated by his extraordinary beauty and his strange friendship with an older painter.

Cursed by an extreme and unrelenting beauty, Adrian has drawn the frenzied attention of adoring strangers since childhood. As a twenty-nine-year-old in New York City, he spends his days drifting between affairs with women (and occasionally men) who provide him with everything he needs, from spending money to luxurious vacations to even, once, a mini yacht. With this generosity comes a dangerous possessiveness that often puts him at risk of much worse than heartbreak. But as people begin removing their masks in the spring of 2021, Adrian’s aimless sexual availability is interrupted by a shocking discovery: He is no longer beautiful.

Across the country, Adrian’s best friend and companion, Mark, a world-famous painter, has returned to the family home in rural Northern California. He’s faced with his own horrible revelation: He’s dying from the same mysterious disease that will soon take his mother and sister.

Despite the depth of their platonic romance, neither man reveals his fate to the other. Feeling as if he’s disappearing from sight, Adrian searches for answers among his thousands of lovers. In a race against his failing body, Mark becomes obsessed with watching fifty-two VHS tapes of unknown origin, left to him by his sister, before it’s too late.

Davey Davis is the author of X and the earthquake room. They write a weekly newsletter and mutual aid fundraiser about art, culture, sexuality, and people named David at itsdavid.substack.com. They live in Brooklyn.

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