Born and raised in New York City, Christopher Sorrentino lived in Northern California for a dozen years in the ’80s and ’90s, and now lives in Brooklyn with his family. His memoir, NOW BEACON, NOW SEA, will be published in September 2021, and has been called “absolutely compelling” (Susan Straight), “an incredibly moving masterpiece” (David Treuer), “irresistible” (Steve Erickson), and “unforgettable” (Rick Moody). His other books are TRANCE, a 2005 National Book Award finalist for fiction; THE FUGITIVES, which Viet Thanh Nguyen, writing in the New York Times Book Review, described as “elegantly constructed…it is its own kind of daring for an author to aim for the understated, the concise and the perfectly joined”; SOUND ON SOUND, “a brilliant and complex novel about remembered truths and modern ennui” (The Los Angeles Reader); as well as AMERICAN TEMPURA, a novella, and DEATH WISH, about the 1974 film of the same name. His work has appeared in Esquire, Granta, Harper’s, the Los Angeles Times, McSweeney’s, The New York Times, the Paris Review, Playboy, and many other publications.
Born and raised in New York City, Christopher Sorrentino lived in Northern California for a dozen years in the ’80s and ’90s, and now lives in Brooklyn with his family. His memoir, NOW BEACON, NOW SEA, will be published in September 2021, and has been called “absolutely compelling” (Susan Straight), “an incredibly moving masterpiece” (David Treuer), “irresistible” (Steve Erickson), and “unforgettable” (Rick Moody). His other books are TRANCE, a 2005 National Book Award finalist for fiction; THE FUGITIVES, which Viet Thanh Nguyen, writing in the New York Times Book Review, described as “elegantly constructed…it is its own kind of daring for an author to aim for the understated, the concise and the perfectly joined”; SOUND ON SOUND, “a brilliant and complex novel about remembered truths and modern ennui” (The Los Angeles Reader); as well as AMERICAN TEMPURA, a novella, and DEATH WISH, about the 1974 film of the same name. His work has appeared in Esquire, Granta, Harper’s, the Los Angeles Times, McSweeney’s, The New York Times, the Paris Review, Playboy, and many other publications.
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