Flat Earth

From a sharp, sardonic new voice, an unforgettable debut novel about female friendship, sex, money, art and America - destined to become a cult classic

A compulsively readable portrait of our times

Slim and sharp ... late-stage capitalism segueing into techno-feudalism, eco-pessimism, a moral arc of the universe that seems to bend not towards justice but away from it ... bleakly relevant to all of us

Strangely hypnotic ... crisp, pitiless prose

Irreverent and freewheeling, Anika Jade Levy writes about the sexual marketplace with precision, insight and sharp wit. Flat Earth is so much fun you might forget about the end of the world

Not to be missed if you want to keep up with the literary zeitgeist

Clever, cool and current

Brilliant, sardonic, utterly original ... destined to become a cult classic

In the tradition of Sheila Heti's How Should A Person Be? , with the doggedness of I Love Dick and apocalyptic girlscaping of a Henry Darger painting, Flat Earth 's Avery explores (with her scroll finger bleeding) both the art parties of New York and the internet, searching for answers to how she should live, and more importantly, what she should write. A captivating, fast, fun, devastating, insane, alarming, super modern novel... the reading-high I got from Flat Earth kept me offline for at least three days

If Mary Gaitskill and Renata Adler spent a weekend collaborating on a sequel to Elizabeth Hardwick's Sleepless Nights, maybe you'd have some precedent for Flat Earth. Anika Jade Levy's razor-thin, razor-sharp debut novel is unlike anything I've ever read before. In fragments that blaze like iPhone faces in dark bedrooms at 3:00 a.m., Flat Earth captures a zeitgeist from its daily ephemera to its unhinged gestalt, transmuting the mess into a brilliant, visceral, funny, provocative, resonant, essential work of art

Flat Earth is delivered in the calm, deliberate style of a great work of art which has always existed and is only now being uncovered, an especially impressive quality given that it concerns itself with the end of girlhood which is to say the end of the world. A novel to be torn through and passed around and treasured

Flat Earth is like a walking tour through one of the hells of the present - a visionary satire,
bitterly funny with traces of sweetness. I couldn't stop reading it

Glittering ... gorgeously spiky ... juicy and tantalisingly zeitgeisty ... a deliciously accurate description of how life looks at 26-and-a-half ... Expect to see it in the manicured hands of cool girls very soon

Witty and poignant ... funny and sharp ... beautiful

Slim but beautiful. You'll want to carry Flat Earth around like a prayer book

Charged with a gleeful apocalyptic energy ... a briskly enjoyable generational portrait

Wild, witty ... roaringly contemporary

Set in a post vibe-shift New York inhabited by edgy artists and aspiring trad wives, a strange and smart addition to the canon of novels about young women coming undone in big cities ... I read this book the same way I sometimes scroll through X late at night: quickly, compulsively and with an intense worry for the fate of the world

Anika Jade Levy is a writer from Colorado. She is a founding editor of Forever Magazine and teaches in the School of the Arts program at Columbia. She is a contributor at Playboy and her reporting has appeared in GQ , Nylon and Interview.