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Nov 13, 2024 | 
time.com | Meg Zukin |Anna Dorn
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May 29, 2024 | 
sacbee.com | Anna Dorn
"[A]s a difficult woman, I've always been drawn to L.A.: its cotton candy-colored smog and pre-apocalyptic climate, sunning lizards, lazy diction, palm trees, strip malls, bad values. It's a goal-oriented town but pretends not to be, and I live for artifice."So writes the narrator of Anna Dorn's "Perfume & Pain," a novel about a wickedly articulate, young, lusty artist behaving badly.
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May 17, 2024 | 
lithub.com | Anna Dorn
When my editor suggested we call the protagonist of my novel a “mid-list author” for the book copy, I must admit—I had to google it! Wikipedia told me that mid-list is a publishing term that refers to books that are not bestsellers but are economically strong enough to justify their publication.
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May 15, 2024 | 
startribune.com | Anna Dorn |Christine Brunkhorst
"[A]s a difficult woman, I've always been drawn to L.A.: its cotton candy-colored smog and pre-apocalyptic climate, sunning lizards, lazy diction, palm trees, strip malls, bad values. It's a goal-oriented town but pretends not to be, and I live for artifice." So writes the narrator of Anna Dorn's "Perfume & Pain," a novel about a wickedly articulate, young, lusty artist behaving badly.
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May 14, 2024 | 
lithub.com | Noe Alvarez |Anna Dorn
Teddy Wayne asks Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Noé Álvarez, Anna Dorn, and more authors 7 burning questions. | Lit Hub CraftHari Kunzru, Freud, System of a Down, and more! These 26 new books are out today. | Lit Hub Reading Lists“Remember that there’s nothing you can say to make it better. Say only that you’re so sorry, so so sorry.” Lilly Dancyger on how to support a friend through grief. | Lit Hub MemoirWhat if you die before you finish your book?
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Apr 15, 2024 | 
simonandschuster.com | Anna Dorn
Trade Paperback LIST PRICE $18.99 PRICE MAY VARY BY RETAILER Table of Contents About The Book A controversial LA author attempts to revive her career and finally find true love in this hilarious nod to 1950s lesbian pulp fiction.
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Apr 2, 2024 | 
hobartpulp.com | Anna Dorn
Marissa Higgins’ arresting debut follows a jittery attorney who becomes romantically entangled with a married lesbian couple. When she meets The Wives, Helen is hanging on by a thread. Her dad is in prison for a disturbing crime she’s downing cough syrup to avoid thinking about. In between flirting with her young assistant for a cheap thrill, Helen begins an intense relationship with the Wives that forces her to grapple with her tumultuous childhood and the demons she’s running from.
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Feb 7, 2024 | 
hobartpulp.com | Anna Dorn
Rebecca K. Reilly’s debut novel Greta & Valdin was a bestseller in her home country of New Zealand in 2021, and today it’s being released in the US and the UK. Pitched as Schitt’s Creek meets Sally Rooney, the sparkly novel follows queer siblings navigating their eccentric family and messy romantic lives.
Greta and Valdin share an apartment as well as a penchant for unrequited love.
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Oct 7, 2023 | 
hobartpulp.com | Anna Dorn
Internet celebrity Melissa Broder’s third novel is what one Goodreads user accurately deemed an “existential horny cactus western.” In Death Valley, the unnamed narrator arrives alone at a Best Western to gather inspiration for her new novel and escape her personal tragedies in Los Angeles—a father in the ICU and chronically ill husband. On a desert trail, the woman encounters a surreal cactus whose size and shape suggest it is not native to California.
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Sep 1, 2023 | 
metrograph.com | Anna Dorn
Friends of Metrograph Weyes Blood, Ian Bradley, Anna Dorn, and Jennifer Krasinski each share a film they love, streaming on demand on the Metrograph At Home platform. Night Tide, dir. Curtis Harrington, 1961 Mora is a mermaid, caught in the struggle between life in the raptures of the sea and life on land… or is she?
