Curtis Sittenfeld

Sittenfeld’s wryly hilarious and insightful new collection, Help Yourself, illuminates human experience and gracefully upends our assumptions about class and race, envy and disappointment, gender and celebrity. Suburban friends fall out after a racist encounter at a birthday party is caught on video and posted on Facebook; an illustrious Manhattan film crew are victims of […]

Hillary Rodham är 1971 en ung och lovande kvinna: hennes examenstal på Wellesley College har uppmärksammats av tidskriften Life, hon studerar juridik vid Yale Law School och hon är aktiv inom student- och kvinnorörelsen. Då träffar hon Bill Clinton. Bill är en stilig och karismatisk studentkamrat från sydstaterna, redan med siktet inställt på en politisk […]

‘Awfully opinionated for a girl’ is what they call Hillary as she grows up in her Chicago suburb.

Smart, diligent, and a bit plain, that’s the general consensus. Then Hillary goes to college, and her star rises. At Yale Law School, she continues to be a leader

Life is (not)* a Romantic Comedy…With a series of heartbreaks under her belt, Sally Milz – successful script writer for a legendary late-night TV comedy show – has long abandoned the search for love.But when her friend and fellow writer begins to date a glamorous actress, he joins the growing club of interesting but average-looking […]

En tvåbarnsmamma i villaförorten fantiserar om att förgöra en gammal vän vars präktiga livsstilsimperium kanske eller kanske inte är byggt på en lögn. En framstående advokat vet inte hur hon ska reagera när hon och hennes man på sin smekmånad stöter på hennes gamla plågoande från skoltiden. En bortkommen Ivy League-student får veta sanningen om […]

“Every bit as smart, sensitive, funny, and genuine as her phenomenally popular novels,”* a dazzling collection from the New York Timesbestselling author of Prep, American Wife, and Eligible “I really loved all the characters in this book. They’re so complex and interesting, and in every story, you’ll find them going through these pivotal moments in […]