A runaway bestseller in China, sold in 17+ countries, this delightfully honest and humorous account gives a face and voice to the future of work—as if Nomadland met Nickel and Dimed. Astra House, 2025.

• “A hypnotic memoir about, of all things, shipping logistics in China”: review by Becca Rothfeld in the Washington Post
• Featured in The New York Times Book Review’s “The Books We Loved This Summer”
• “The ‘wild’ writer who told the truth about work in China”: profile by Edward White in the Financial Times
• Additional reviews in the Guardian, The Times, Los Angeles Review of Books, Asymptote, Bloomberg News, Asia Society, Electric Literature, Georgia Review, the Daily Mail, Publishers Weekly, and Kirkus Reviews
• Interviews in PEN, WIRED, The Economist’s Drum Tower podcast, the Guardian, Jacobin, and Rest of World
• Excerpted in The Dial and Fortune

Surreal, hilarious, and shrewdly poignant, Y/N is a provocative literary debut about the universal longing for transcendence and the tragic struggle to assert one’s singular story amidst the amnesiac effects of globalization. Astra House, 2023.

• Finalist for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize
• A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of 2023, New York Times 2023 Critics’ Pick, New Yorker Best Book of 2023, NPR Best Book of 2023, TIME Must-Read Book of 2023, and Bookshop.org Best Book of 2023
• “She Dropped Everything to Meet the K-Pop Star of Her Fantasies”: review by Alexandra Jacobs in The New York Times
• “What is the Appeal of Fan Fiction?”: review by Katy Waldman in The New Yorker
• “Finally, Some Freaky K-pop Writing”: review by Cat Zhang in Vulture
• “Toward Pop Literature”: review by Olivia Kan-Sperling in n+1
• Additional reviews in The Guardian, the Times Literary Supplement, Reactor, the Chicago Review of Books, Electric Literature, and more
• “Highbrow/Brilliant” quadrant of New York magazine’s Approval Matrix
• Mentioned by comedian Aparna Nancherla in the Wall Street Journal
• Interviewed on NPR All Things Considered and selected as NPR’s Book of the Day
• Selected for Defector’s “Defector Reads a Book” book club
• Excerpted in The Paris Review and New York magazine’s “60-Second Excerpt”
• Events at Greenlight Bookstore in Brooklyn, NY; Riffraff in Providence, RI; Skylight Books in Los Angeles, CA; Elliott Bay Book Company in Seattle, WA; and the Toronto Public Library

The definitive biography of MF DOOM, charting the reclusive and revered hip-hop artist’s life, career, and eventual immortality. Astra House, 2024.

• A Variety, FLOOD, Clash, and Mother Jones best book of 2024
• “Stellar biography of MF Doom peels away the mask to reveal a master of reinvention”: review by Chris Vognar in the San Francisco Chronicle
• Reviews in The Guardian and The Washington Post
• Interviewed on NPR Bullseye with Jesse Thorn, WNYC All Of It, WBUR Radio Boston, WHYY (Philadelphia), Needle Drop, Brooklyn Magazine, HYPEBEAST, the Toronto Star, and the San Francisco Chronicle
• Excerpted in Complex
• Events at the Brooklyn Museum in Brooklyn, NY(with Hanif Abdurraqib; featured in Gunk, Time Out New York, BK Reader, Gothamist); Red Emma’s in Baltimore, MD; A Cappella Books in Atlanta, GA (featured in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution); Exile in Bookville in Chicago, IL; Skylight Books in Los Angeles, CA; Green Apple in San Francisco, CA (featured in 48 Hills); Bar Shiru in Oakland, CA (featured in Berkeleyside, Oaklandside); Politics & Prose in Washington, DC; Vinyl Index in Boston, MA; Enoch Pratt Free Library in Baltimore, MD; and Space 1026 in Philadelphia, PA (featured in the Philadelphia Inquirer)

A workplace novel, at once tender, startling, and deeply funny, Jonathan Abernathy You Are Kind is a stunning, critical work of surrealist fiction, a piercing critique of late-stage capitalism, and a reckoning with its true cost. Astra House, 2023.

• “This Science Fiction Novel Scrapes the Work Force of Human Suffering”: review by Haley Mlotek in The New York Times Book Review
• “A biting debut for fans of George Saunders and Severance”: review by Rafael Frumkin in the Washington Post
• Reviews in the Guardian, Locus, Reactor, Pluralistic, and Masters Review
• Selected as a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice
• “Highbrow/Brilliant” quadrant of New York magazine’s Approval Matrix
• Interviewed by Nerdette, BOMB, Fast Company, Esquire, The Millions, the Southern Review of Books, Screen Porch, Chapter 16, The Maris Review, Books Are Magic, Electric Literature, and Debutiful
• Recommended on Good Morning America
• Selected for Nerdette’s book club (WBEZ Chicago)
• Excerpted in Electric Literature and original piece in Literary Hub
• Events at Greenlight Bookstore in Brooklyn, NY; Loyalty Bookstore in Washington, DC; Greedy Reads in Baltimore, MD; Porter Square Books in Cambridge, MA; Champlain College in Burlington, VT; Third Place Books in Seattle, WA; Skylight Books in Los Angeles, CA; Green Apple Books in San Francisco, CA; Franklin Park Reading Series in Brooklyn, NY; The Bookshop in Nashville, TN; NYPL Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library in New York, NY; and Los Angeles Times Festival of Books in Los Angeles, CA

A highly original hybrid of literary criticism and political history about the enduring, surprising, and ever-evolving relevance of Milton’s epic poem through the scandalous life of its creator and the revolutionary lives that were influenced by it. Astra House, 2024.

• “What Satan’s Biographer Can Teach Us About Tyranny and Resistance”: review by Ed Simon in the New York Times Book Review
• “A Milton for All Seasons”: review by Catherine Nicholson in the New York Review of Books
• “Sure, ‘Paradise Lost’ is Radical, but Did You Know it Was Sexy?”: review by Merve Emre in the New Yorker
• “Paradises Lost and Found”: review by Benjamin Shull in the Wall Street Journal
• “What in Me Is Dark—Paradise Lost revisited”: review in the Financial Times
• “The incredible afterlife of Paradise Lost”: review by Joe Moshenska in the Guardian
• “Disobedient reading”: review by Andrea Brady in the Times Literary Supplement
• “Why do rebels and revolutionaries love ‘Paradise Lost’?”: review in the Economist
• Reviewed in the Chicago Review of Books
• Selected as a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice
• Original pieces in Jacobin and The Nation
• Launch event at the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research in Brooklyn, NY

A wide ranging, philosophical, and sensual account of early deep sea exploration and its afterlives, The Bathysphere Book begins with the first ever voyage to the deep ocean in 1930 and expands to explore the adventures and entanglements of its all-too-human participants at a time when the world still felt entirely new. Astra House, 2023.

• Winner of the National Book Foundation Science + Literature Award
• A Washington Post top 10 book of 2023
• “Deep-Sea Creatures of Bittersweet Orange and Metallic Opaline Green”: review by W. M. Akers in The New York Times Book Review
• “The Bathysphere Book Review: The Descent of William Beebe”: review by Benjamin Shull in The Wall Street Journal
• “Creepy, wondrous—and expensive—journeys to the ocean’s depths”: review by Carl Hoffman in the Washington Post
• Additional reviews in the Guardian, Financial Times, New Scientist, DIVE magazine, and Geographical
• Selected as a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice
• Mentioned by Molly Young in “Read Like the Wind” in the New York Times
• Interviewed on BYU Radio Constant Wonder, BOMB, Hypertext Magazine, InsideHook, and Across the Pond
• Excerpted in Smithsonian Magazine, JSTOR Daily, Orion, Literary Hub, and Hakai magazine
• Events at McNally Jackson in New York, NY; Harvard Book Store in Cambridge, MA; and Bank Square Books in Mystic, CT

A moving, innovative, and deeply felt novel about an aging poet who agrees to collaborate with a Big Tech company’s poetry AI, named Charlotte. Astra House, 2023.

• A Marie Claire, Inside Hook, Our Culture, and WIRED best book of 2023
• “Will A.I. Change Art? A New Novel Uses A.I. to Explore Just That”: review by Lincoln Michel in The New York Times Book Review
• “Literature Under the Spell of A.I.”: essay by A.O. Scott in The New York Times Book Review
• “The Rise of Tech Worker Fiction”: essay by Rebecca Ackermann in Esquire
• “Meet Your New Robot Co-Writer”: essay by Jonathan Russell Clark in Esquire
• Interviewed in the Associated Press, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, Publishers Weekly, and the Toronto Star
• Recommended on WIRED’s Gadget Lab podcast
• Mentioned in The Drift
• Additional reviews in the Montreal Review of Books, Boston Review, BookPage, Foreword, Publishers Weekly, and the Complete Review
• Original pieces in The New Yorker and The Baffler
• Appearances at the Texas Book Festival, Brooklyn Book Festival, and Booksmith in San Francisco, CA

From the incomparable New York Times and New Yorker illustrator Tamara Shopsin, a debut novel about a NYC printer repair technician who comes of age alongside the Apple computer—featuring original artistic designs by the author. MCD/FSG, 2021.

• “Zen and the Art of Printer Maintenance”: review by J. D. Biersdorfer in The New York Times Book Review
• “Laser Writer II hides a dark corporate fairytale under its rosy nostalgia”: review by Heller McAlpin on NPR.org
• “Geek Love”: interview with Lisa Borst in Bookforum
• “This new novel is a love letter to a whole era of Apple nerdery”: interview with Glenn Fleishman in Fast Company
• “Life amid the broken Macs (and printers) of Tekserve”: review by Jason Snell in Six Colors
• “Paper Jamming”: review by Matthew Kirschenbaum in the Los Angeles Review of Books
• Additional reviews in the Star Tribune, BOMB, and Publishers Weekly (starred review)
• Excerpted in The Verge
• Launch event at Poster House in New York, NY