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Brandon Taylor is the author of the novels The Late Americans and Real Life, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Prize, and named a New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice and a Science + Literature Selected Title by the National Book Foundation. His collection Filthy Animals, a US bestseller, was awarded the Story Prize and shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize. He is the 2022-2023 Mary Ellen von der Heyden Fellow at the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers. He tweets at @blgtylr, where he has 90k followers, and his newsletter can be found at- blgtylr.substack.com.
A beautiful, detailed writer, Taylor excels at penning his own expansive, contemporary versions of Victorian novels... The Late Americans is one of his most exciting creations yet. * Harper's Bazaar, *Books to Look Out For 2023* * Taylor is a sharp chronicler of the body. In The Late Americans, the body is an instrument and an archive, vulnerable to the complicated violence of pleasure and work. -- Raven Leilani, author of Luster Brandon Taylor writes with such precision and perception that reading his work is an immersive experience: you inhabit his characters, you share their nerve endings. The Late Americans is a brilliant and electrifying symphony of a novel. I loved it. -- Lily King, author of Writers & Lovers and Euphoria A glimmering study of young humans in brutal times. This novel enthralls like an orchestra tuning, pours with rain, sizzles and glances knowingly from the page. -- Jeremy Atherton Lin, author of Gay Bar Following a group of three friends as they traverse love and life in Iowa City, Taylor's novel examines the intricacies of relationships through an intimate lens, deftly chronicling contemporary loneliness and desire. * i-D, *Best New Books of 2023* * The Late Americans is a dizzying plunge into the lives of young people making art in America in the era of survival capitalism, grappling over the big questions like they're fighting over a gun. Deep within their ambitions, their pettiness and lust, is the meaning and even grandeur they seek - and whether or not his characters ever find it, Brandon Taylor has. A bravura performance on the edge of a knife. -- Alexander Chee, author of How to Write an Autobiographical Novel Brandon Taylor's characters in The Late Americans are obsessed with art, money, integrity, success, survival - and with one another. They can be deliciously catty, but they're also desperate to be loved. And repulsed by that desperation. They are, in a word, human. Taylor realizes each character so fully, with such enviable - and often hilarious - granularity, that it's hard not to feel like I know these people, that I could pick up my phone right now and call any of them. It's the best kind of magic, this book. I'm already rereading it. -- Kaveh Akbar, author of Pilgrim Bell If you're interested in complex characters, consider picking up this book in May! * Palatinate, *Books to Look Out For 2023* * A tender, deeply-felt, perfectly-paced novel about solitude and society, sexuality and race. -- Colm Toibin, praise for REAL LIFE A manual for life that I wish I'd had sooner. -- Naoise Dolan, praise for REAL LIFE Extraordinary, brilliant, claustrophobic, tightly wound, heartbreaking. I do not have enough words to describe how I loved this book. -- Daisy Johnson, praise for REAL LIFE Brandon Taylor is a phenomenon. -- Paul Mendez, praise for REAL LIFE He is a writer of rare daring, his fiction a series of revelations. -- Katie Kitamura, praise for REAL LIFE With the rigour of the labratory, Taylor wields scalpel-like prose, putting human behaviours under the microscope... Precise and masterly. * Financial Times, praise for REAL LIFE * A great American novel, a great college novel, a great summer novel, a great queer novel... The best novel I've read this year. * Dazed, praise for REAL LIFE *
