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Allie Rowbottom is the author of the debut novel Aesthetica, named a best book of 2022 by NPR, Glamour, and Vanity Fair, and the New York Times Editors' Choice memoir Jell-O Girls. Her reported piece, ""Are We All Technosexuals Now?"" was the lead story for the 2024 New York Times Style Section Valentines Day feature. Her short story ""He Dreams About the Bunny Ranch,"" published by Alta Journal, was a finalist for the National Magazine Award in fiction in 2023. Other essays and short fiction can be found at Vanity Fair, Elle, NY Tyrant, The London Times, Forever Mag, Florida Review, Gulf Coast and elsewhere. She holds a PhD in creative writing and literature from the University of Houston and lives in Los Angeles.
A propulsive and surprisingly tender novel about two teens who find themselves drawn into the 1980s LA porn industry -- Otegha Uwagba * Grazia * Exciting and gritty without feeling lurid, and a moving ode to the value of a female friendship. It's a knockout * Publishers Weekly * An extraordinary, sordidly exciting, fascinating and original story ... biting but archetypal, sleazy and uneasy, dangerous and ambitious -- Bidisha Allie's writing possesses a rare combination of deep compassion, prescient insight, and just plain coolness that I'm in awe of. She tackles the sticky subjects of female sexuality, objectification and desire with a smoothness that appears effortless on the page, but which I know is born from an obsessive refining of both thought and craft. She has put into words things I have felt but been unable to articulate more times than I can count -- Coco Mellors, author of Blue Sisters Smart, sad, sexy, and at times surprisingly sweet, Allie Rowbottom's Lovers XXX does for the stars of adult filmmaking what her previous novel Aesthetica did for cosmetically-enhanced influencers: it casts a humanising spell, transforming the women at its centre from mere naked flesh into something more like real flesh and blood. Beneath all that silicone and slickness, Rowbottom locates a warm, beating heart -- Philippa Snow, author of It's Terrible the Things I Have To Do To Be Me Lovers XXX is Persona set in the 80s porn world - thrillingly literate; thrillingly sleazy -- Lili Anolik, author of Didion and Babitz You're thrown right into Lovers XXX and it doesn't stop. Allie writes about desire, survival, intimacy and exploitation with a kind of feral tenderness. She turns stick-ups, strip clubs and motel rooms into a fever dream that makes ruin look romantic. Impossible to put down! -- Madeline Cash, author of Lost Lambs Pulsing and propulsive, Lovers XXX is a fever dream and love song, an ode to the gritty places we find solace and sustenance and glimpses of sublimity: cold fries and canned Screwdrivers, strip malls in the heat and diners at midnight, dusk light glinting off hubcaps on the 101 -- Leslie Jamison, author of Splinters
