Adam Sternbergh

Dec 4, 2024 | lithub.com | Adam Sternbergh

For acolytes of Mark Leyner, the 1990s were a time of abundance. No matter when new readers had joined the cult of Leyner—maybe it was after encountering My Cousin, My Gastroenterologist in 1990 or Et Tu, Babe in ’92 or Tooth Imprints on a Corn Dog in ’95—the discovery of his fiction reliably sent such readers ecstatically scrambling both forward and backward in time: scouring his back catalog for earlier works while simultaneously scanning the horizon for the arrival of future installments.

Oct 18, 2024 | nytimes.com | Adam Sternbergh

Charles Baxter’s new novel is a snapshot of a troubled America, disguised as a speculative comedy.

Jul 14, 2024 | adamsternbergh.substack.com | Adam Sternbergh

Lots of people pooh-pooh best-of lists for lots of reasons: works of art shouldn’t be in competition with each other; no list can truly express something as abstract and subjective as “best,” all lists are simply “to-do lists written by other people.”However, I am not lots of people and I agree with none of those reasons. I love lists. I love lists of best novels, funniest novels, weirdest novels, best of the year, best of the century, best of the millennium. Because: Why not?

Jul 13, 2023 | nytimes.com | Adam Sternbergh |Dwyer Murphy

May 19, 2023 | criminalelement.com | Adam Sternbergh