Lily Meyer is a translator, a critic, and the author of the novel Short War. She is also a contributing writer at The Atlantic. Her stories and translations can be found in The Dial, The Drift, The Sewanee Review, The Southern Review and many other journals, and her essays and criticism appear in outlets including Bookforum, The New Yorker and The New York Times Book Review.
If Grace Paley and Miranda July had a baby, the result would be The End of Romance. Hilarious, off-kilter, sparklingly special, deliciously Jew-ish and disarmingly deep, this book made me feel 10 percent less dead inside -- Emma Copley Eisenberg, author of Housemate For literary fiction and romance readers alike, The End of Romance unfurls questions about what female pleasure, satisfaction, and happiness truly look like. -- Bustle, '10 Best New Books of February' Meyer conjures a hothouse of academic passion and political tumult in one woman's quest for self-acceptance -- TIME MAGAZINE Meyer's novel is earnest and analytical, interspersed with theory and sex -- Vulture A sly subversion and exemplar of the [romance] form... its irrepressible protagonist, Sylvie Broder, a spiritual heiress to Judy Blume characters -- The New York Times