Give Me Danger

“Tea Hačić-Vlahović is a peerless writer, unrivalled. Tea's work is highly stylized, playful and voice-y, pop yet literary and always undeniably her own. It's like nothing else being published today. Recently I read a piece of journalism bemoaning the absence of a contemporary literary brat pack. Why isn't there a 2024 equivalent to 1980s literary star children like Brett Easton Ellis and Tama Janowitz, this journalist wanted to know. I thought immediately of Tea, a writer with prosaic and personal pizazz, a writer one might easily point to as the stylistic heir to Janowitz and Ellis, a writer who could and should be first in line to fill that void. Her latest novel Give Me Danger is both a literary satire and a painfully realistic portrait of grieving. It's feminine and edgy, raw and pop and weird and unapologetic, humming with cutting observations about womanhood and sex, written with avant-garde style, which is a selling point, something to celebrate. Tea and her work are stand-outs. I will never stop singing their praises.” —Allie Rowbottom, author of Jell-O Girls and Aesthetica ""Tea Hačić-Vlahović has an uncanny ability to both thrill and terrorize her readers with deadpan humor and electric prose that cut like a knife. Reading Give Me Danger feels like stepping inside all the iconic parties you're not invited to, as told by the only girl who can get you in. Our heroine, Val, a writer, endures a barrage of casual degradation and exploitation that exists in the cultural milieu she traffics in; but Val is no victim, she is keenly aware of the transactional nature of modern relationships and plays the cards she's dealt with a biting self-awareness. A phantasmagoric romp through a dystopian present-day Los Angeles, where the decadence of martinis, velvet and room service co-mingle with rats, violence and trash. This book is a shimmering salve for my internet-addled brain; it makes me want to log off, unearth my sluttiest dress, and go out."" —Nada Alic, author of Bad Thoughts “Nobody writes compulsive sexy-horror-envy-intimacy like Tea Hačić-Vlahović. This book will make you laugh at the elaborate facades which are possible to conjure in this rotten world, and, often in the same sentence, weep at their inevitable failures. A bonafide zinger, and I don’t say that lightly.” —Megan Nolan, author of Acts of Desperation “Tea Hačić-Vlahović takes pride in turning lowbrow into vision, a party report into Baroque Conceptismo, rats and pigeons into prophets. In short, she is the academy’s wet dream: possessing the ability to read the present with jokes, not footnotes.” —Spike Art Magazine