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Feb 6, 2024 | 
electricliterature.com | Édouard Louis |Michael Lucey |Zia Haider Rahman |Molly McGhee
Reading Lists What do you do when you realize hard work isn't enough to secure a successful future?
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Dec 7, 2023 | 
electricliterature.com | Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah |Rebecca Makkai |Molly McGhee |Jenny Xie
Reading Lists Emma Cline, Jen Beagin, Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Hilary Leichter, and Jennifer Baker are among the year's most loved Donate to Keep Electric Literature Free! Electric Literature published over 500 and writers and nearly 600 articles in 2023—all of which are free for you to read. EL’s archives of thousands of essays, stories, poems, and reading lists are also free. We need you to contribute to keep it that way. Please make a donation to our year end campaign today. There’s no...
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Oct 22, 2023 | 
largeheartedboy.com | Molly McGhee
In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book. Previous contributors include Jesmyn Ward, Lauren Groff, Bret Easton Ellis, Celeste Ng, T.C. Boyle, Dana Spiotta, Amy Bloom, Aimee Bender, Roxane Gay, and many others. Molly McGhee’s novelJonathan Abernathy You Are Kind is a breathtaking debut, a stunning satire of late-stage capitalism.
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Oct 17, 2023 | 
lithub.com | Molly McGhee
As a child, I read men. Before I turned eighteen I read Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Salinger, Portis, Melville, McCarthy, and Faulkner. I loved Brave New World, A Clockwork Orange, Fahrenheit 451, The Invisible Man, and 1984. I devoured Vonnegut, and Bukowski. I worshiped at the altar of Kafka, Dumas, Conan Doyle, and Poe. Chandler, as well, how could I not? I didn’t give a shit about Kerouac or Ginsberg, though I admired Brautigan, and, sure, Carver and Coover, too.
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Oct 17, 2023 | 
greenapplebooks.com | Molly McGhee |Colin Winnette
This event will be held at our 9th Ave location in the Inner Sunset. Join us on Wednesday, November 8 at 7pm PT when Molly McGhee celebrates the release of Jonathan Abernathy You Are Kind with Colin Winnette at 9th Ave!Masks Encouraged for In-Person AttendanceOr watch online at the link belowhttps://youtube.com/live/1xGM2Y94P2A?feature=sharePraise for Jonathan Abernathy You Are Kind"Molly McGhee's luminary imagination makes this debut a wonder.
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Oct 16, 2023 | 
electricliterature.com | Wynter K. Miller |Molly McGhee
How to Audit a Capitalist Nightmare Share article Electric Literature Urgently Needs Your HelpFor the 15,000 people who visit our site every day, reading Electric Literature costs nothing. And yet Electric Lit is not free. We need to raise $25,000 by December 31, 2024 to keep Electric Literature going into next year.
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Oct 14, 2023 | 
nytimes.com | Haley Mlotek |Molly McGhee |Astra House
In Molly McGhee's debut, "Jonathan Abernathy You Are Kind," debt-laden citizens are recruited to "audit" others' dreams - all in the name of productivity.
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Oct 8, 2023 | 
theguardian.com | Molly McGhee
I owe $120,000 to the American government, which I accrued chasing the American dream. Yes, I am yet another person who was taken in by the predatory lending practices of student loans. The story of my education is classically American: problematic student is deemed talented, teacher with heart goes out of his way to invest in the student, turns out the student’s family is struggling financially.
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Sep 7, 2023 | 
greenlightbookstore.com | Molly McGhee |Alexandra Kleeman
IN-STORETuesday, October 17, 7:30 PMBook launch: Molly McGhee presents Jonathan Abernathy You Are Kind: A NovelIn conversation with Alexandra KleemanWine reception to followJonathan Abernathy is behind on his debts, has no prospects, and no ambitions. But when a government loan forgiveness program offers him a literal dream job, he thinks he's found his big break. As Abernathy finds his footing in this role, reality and morality begin to warp around him.
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Jan 25, 2023 | 
barnesandnoble.com | Molly McGhee
"Molly McGhee reminds me of absolutely no one. Here’s an original mind brimming over with invention and comic ferocity . . . [a] mad, hilarious writer.” —Ben Marcus, author of The Flame AlphabetFor readers of Patricia Lockwood and Ling Ma, a debut novel for the modern working stiff. Jonathan Abernathy is a loser . . . he’s behind on his debts, he has no prospects, no friends, no ambitions. But when a government loan forgiveness program offers him a literal dream job, he thinks he’s found his big break.
