G.D. Dess

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The Sleepersby Matthew Gasda Arcade, 288 pages, $14.99Few contemporary American authors are as in touch with today’s zeitgeist as Matthew Gasda. His break-out play Dimes Square premiered in 2022 and was hailed as both “decadent and delicious.” The play provides a generational snapshot of millennials and aspiring careerists and, as contemporary theater goes, it is “as good as it gets,” reported Vulture.

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‘Sex sells” is a truism few would dispute—and it holds true for the successful career of the Irish literary star Sally Rooney who has remarked that in her work, “the driver is erotic tension or desire.” Her novels are typically categorized as realist romantic comedies that turn around modified marriage plots, but as she says, it is the erotic that motivates her characters.