About this Event
Rizzoli Bookstore is delighted to welcome Anika Jade Levy to celebrate the paperback release of her book, Flat Earth. She will be in conversation with Lili Anolik, followed by a signing.
PLEASE NOTE: RSVPs are encouraged but not required. Seating is limited and will be first come, first served. Doors open at 5:30 pm.
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A young woman struggles with the artistic success of her more privileged, beautiful best friend in this ruthless portrait of the New York art scene in which relationships are transactional, men are vampiric, and women have limited time to trade on their youth, beauty, and talent--it's Renata Adler's Speedboat for the Adderall generation
"I read this book in a night, breathless and enraptured; wanting to save everyone in it, and wanting to watch them burn forever." --Leslie Jamison
Avery is a grad student in New York working on a collection of cultural reports and flailing financially and emotionally. She dates older men for money, and others for the oblivion their egos offer. In an act of desperation, Avery takes a job at a right-wing dating app. The "white-paper" she is tasked to write for the startup eventually merges with her dissertation, resulting in a metafictional text that reveals itself over the course of the novel.
Meanwhile, her best friend, Frances, an effortlessly chic emerging filmmaker from a wealthy Southern family, drops out of grad school, gets married, and somehow still manages to finish her first feature documentary. Frances's triumphant return to New York as the toast of the art world sends Avery into a final tailspin, pushing her to make a series of devastating decisions.
In this generational portrait, attention spans are at an all-time low and dopamine tolerance is at an all-time high. Flat Earth is a story of coming of age in America, a novel about commodification, conspiracy theories, mimetic desire, and the difficulties of female friendship that's as sharp and sardonic as it is heartbreaking.
ANIKA JADE LEVY is a writer from Colorado. She is a founding editor of Forever Magazine, an instructor in the Writing program at Columbia University, and a contributor at Playboy. Flat Earth is her debut.
Lili Anolik is a contributing editor at Vanity Fair. She was a finalist for the 2024 National Magazine Award in profile writing. She is the creator of the podcasts Once Upon a Time… in the Valley and Once Upon a Time… at Bennington College. Her latest book, Didion & Babitz, a national bestseller, was published last year by Scribner.
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Rizzoli Bookstore, 1133 Broadway, New York, United States
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