ERIN SOMERS
Novel:
Stay Up With
Hugo Best
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SELECTED WRITING
A Salty Young Critic Explains Internet Culture, Patiently — The New York Times
"Lives of the Wives" Books Won’t Save Us — Bustle
Washing Up — McSweeney's Quarterly Concern
The Queenmaker — Bustle
Ten Year Affair — Joyland
Featured in Best American Short Stories 2022
The Ghosts of Lorrie Moore — The Nation
Martin Amis Let His Readers in on the Joke — The New Republic
My Wild Weekend at the Philip Roth Festival — Esquire
On the Road With a Grandma Named Pincer — The New York Times
A Higher Plane: The Short Fiction of George Saunders — The Nation
Dolls Gone Wild — Romper
More Jodie Turner-Smith, Please — Bustle
What Will Writers Do Without Twitter? — The Atlantic
Excess and Earnestness at Joan Didion's Estate Sale — Vulture
All of Life: Michelle Tea's Memoir of Pregnancy and Parenting — The Nation
What Joyce Carol Oates Knows About Fame — Bustle
Crazy for You — Bookforum
When it Comes to Giving Birth, What Can Money Buy You? — Romper
Letter of Recommendation: Do Away With Letters of Recommendation — Gawker
Young Women and Their "Unfinished Business" — The New York Times
Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon — Jennifer Egan's Worldwide Webs — The Nation
Künstlermania — Gawker
How The Afterparty "Reinvigorated" Dave Franco — GQ
Variations on the Same — Oprah Daily
David
Berman, Slacker God — The Paris Review
Waltz —
Ecotone
I Love Becky
Brady — Tin House
Amazing
New Clothing-Delivery Startups — The New Yorker
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PRAISE FOR STAY UP WITH HUGO BEST
"Taut and incisive... tender... Somers is clear—exquisitely,
wrenchingly—when
articulating Bloom's lifelongfixation on Best."
— New
York Times Book Review
"Somers has written her protagonist with a sharp eye for the type
of ennui
endemic to a swath of the millennial generation...Somers' deft
handling of the
juxtaposition between self-defeating pessimism and the heartfelt need
for human connection would be impressive for any
established author; for
a debut, it's a tantalizing promise of incisive
works to come."
— Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
"A zippy debut…June's quick wit keeps the banter flowing over a
bizarre
Memorial Day weekend…the millennial and the magnetic celebrity are
surprisingly well suited, two sardonic souls who find themselves
connecting…magnificent…a devilishly fun ride."
— Vogue
"On the surface, Somers' debut is light and breezy, but the narrative
is deft,
controlled, and deadly smart.She mines depths out of
Hollywood's propensity
to look the other way when beloved men behave
badly without a hint of preachiness.
Instead, she's interested in
complicity... What could be a straightforward novel about
a young woman
and an older man taking mutual advantage of one another is instead a
brilliant study in how rarely we seize opportunities to grow and change for the better — especially
if we're lucky enough to get more than one.
An outstanding comedic debut about the deeply
unfunny trials of growing
up in and out of the spotlight. Somers is a writer to watch."
— Kirkus Reviews, Starred Review