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Forthcoming in October 2026 from What Books Press, a novel that takes readers on a singular journey into the dark and tender heart of literature, wandering the minefields of the private act and the public surrender of writing and the fraught tension of a long, complex relationship between
a teacher and student, mentor and mentee, lover and lover.
Plus a murder mystery spreading out from its center.
advance praise
“This novel slows down my brain, stretches it, shoots me down the rabbit hole, tangles me in its whirlwind of narrative mutations. It’s a rich compound of agitation, contemplation, and innovation. Shuffling the roles of author, reader, teacher, student, self-saboteur, and impostor, it shows that
to write well is also to endure a strange, sometimes sad, sometimes glorious existence.”—Kiik Araki-Kawaguchi, The Book of Kane and Margaret
“A tender and beautiful look at how writing works—or at least how writing attempts to work, how it isolates yet also connects us.”—Sara Majka, Cities I’ve Never Lived In
“A rare treasure: a metafiction with real heart, a mystery that grows more mysterious the more it reveals, a meditation on loneliness as full of humor as yearning. Formally inventive and quietly unsettling, this is a strange, surprising, seductive gem of a book.”—Scott Nadelson, While It Lasts and Trust Me
advance purchase information forthcoming
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