

People pass in and out of intimacy several older men, more and less sinister, serve as catalysts, altering the choreography.

Each of the characters is granted interiority, even when they don’t quite know or understand themselves. The relationships move like an eighteenth-century quadrille, at once restrained and spritely. Plus, it’s fun to talk about things you like.Īlso, it got a great review from the Claire Messud in Harper’s, very exciting, here is my favorite part, which is maybe the most beautiful thing a person has said about my work: Suggest it to someone you think might like it. Any book you are excited about, or want to see do well-talk about that fucking book, friend. Your favorite author with like 100K Instagram followers could flop tomorrow and nobody would even hear the book go under. Excepting a few authors, there are no sure things in publishing. Perfectly rational.īut the reality is that no matter how successful you perceive an author to be, publishing a book does not get less risky or become less of a gamble. You might think, oh, Brandon you have published a few books now and you have a social media platform, my little preorder doesn’t matter, don’t you have enough attention already. The novel comes out May 23, and I hope you will consider preordering it in your preferred format or asking your local library to get a copy. The other morning, the finished copies of my new novel The Late Americans arrived.
