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“Marked by Corin’s limber voice, this brims with genuine depth and humor... Delightfully askew, Corin’s work offers a memorable exploration of how a loved one’s mental illness can impact an individual’s outlook.”

— Publisher's Weekly on The Swank Hotel

“Whenever the dull carapace of cliché seems to swallow the world, I reach for Lucy Corin’s books and the violent magic of her storytelling. Here is a writer light years ahead of her time returning to explore the recent past of our ongoing American crises. The Swank Hotel is premonitory and grief-stricken and somehow gregarious in its lonesomeness, so generous in its weird humor and waterfalling surprises. In her capacious vision, the ‘rattlesnakes of madness’ twine through a world of starter homes and desktop screensavers, crushing debt and missing sisters, a cruel, bewildering America where the runestones of love and home can still, miraculously, make sense of us.”

— Karen Russell

“Corin creates a series of dreamscapes in which the apocalypse becomes a set piece for melancholy, humorous, beautiful, and lonely ruminations.”

— KQED Arts on One Hundred Apocalypses and Other Apocalypses

“Pure sleight of hand. How is it done? Come closer, I’ll tell you. She closes her eyes and watches the movies playing 24-7 inside the lids.”

— The Los Angeles Times on The Entire Predicament

“Edgy and erotic. Interestingly psychotic.”

— American Book Review on Everyday Psychokillers: A History for Girls

Lucy Corin is the author most recently of the novel The Swank Hotel (Graywolf Press), which was among The New Yorker's "Best Books of 2022." She is the author of two short story collections, One Hundred Apocalypses and Other Apocalypses (McSweeney's Books) and The Entire Predicament (Tin House Books), and the novel Everyday Psychokillers: A History for Girls (FC2). Her work has appeared in Bomb, Zyzzyva, Conjunctions, Harpers Magazine, The New York Times Magazine, McSweeney’s Quarterly, and Tin House Magazine, and in anthologies including New American Stories (Vintage Contemporaries). She’s been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Fellowship in Literature from the NEA, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters John Guare Writers Fund Rome Prize. Corin is on the faculty of the MFA program at UC DavisLucy Corin is the author most recently the novel The Swank Hotel (Graywolf Press), which was among The New Yorker's "Best Books of 2022." She is the author of two short story collections, One Hundred Apocalypses and Other Apocalypses (McSweeney's Books), and The Entire Predicament (Tin House Books), and the novel Everyday Psychokillers: A History for Girls (FC2). Her work has appeared in Bomb, Zyzzvya, Conjunctions, Harpers Magazine, The New York Times Magazine, McSweeney’s Quarterly, Tin House Magazine, and in anthologies including New American Stories (Vintage Contemporaries). She’s been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Fellowship in Literature from the NEA, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters John Guare Writers Fund Rome Prize. Corin is on the faculty of the MFA program at UC Davis.