This fall, Kenning Editions will publish Charlie Markbreiter‘s first book, Gossip Girl Fanfic Novella. Pre-order a copy now, or sit tight all summer for the print and electronic editions to materialize.
Meanwhile, if you are in New York, Charlie is reading in the Milk and Henny Experience tomorrow. Can’t get there? Scroll through this and read some of what Charlie has been up to.
Lucy Ives says:
A requiem for Lauren Berlant wrapped in a reanimation of the deeply of-its-time prep-school soap, Charlie Markbreiter’s novella is also a beautiful, relentlessly inventive page-turner of an essay of autotheory. I didn’t watch Gossip Girl and now I’ll never need to, because Markbreiter has created a realer, weirder, freer projection—a series of interconnected worlds where the dead speak, get high, watch TV; philosophers compete; and familiar characters chew the scenery while an enigmatic television writer leads us gingerly toward a reconciliation with love.