Earth Angel

An emerging writer to watch

Washington Post

Cash’s stories can be funny, inventive, linguistically exciting, and feel genuinely new. The brutality they trade on conjures depressingly convincing portraits of our ongoing modernity, realer than real

Verso Books

Cash’s heroines are all earth angels but none so much as presence in these stories of the author herself, whose style has a devilish (remember Satan was an angel) and celestial powers, quite apart from the characters and scenarios Cash has imagined.

Bomb Magazine

Cash’s stories are a reminder of what fiction can do when it’s allowed to break the rules, express its moment, turn the despairing or the banal into something better.

Compact

The stories in [Cash's] book are bizarre in the way that only a writer with her precision can employ.

W Magazine

Madeline’s debut story collection reads like a captivating lucid dream.

Nylon

Uncanny, poetic, and bleakly funny, Earth Angel reaches for a higher power in a society that has forgotten how to believe.

LARB

[Cash] pushes her characters a step further than expected, hooks them up to an IV filled with irony, and watches as they degrade on their own slippery slopes.

NorthWest Review

To read Madeline Cash is to mainline her apocalyptic vitality, to witness a rare vision realized with an untamed sense of control, to light your cigarette off of the flames from her burning heart.

Justin Taylor, author of Riding with the Ghost

I enjoyed Madeline's stories a lot. They're weird and funny and dead-pan, and they explore interesting, under-examined topics.

Tao Lin, author of Taipei and Leave Society

A brutal, funny and dizzying fever dream of a book. Madeline Cash’s stories read like the musings of a brilliant boarding school girl sucking on a DMT vape pen: an entire universe, vivid and writhing, is revealed beneath her placid stare. This is an electric debut.

Nada Alic, author of Bad Thoughts

Madeline Cash's short stories blaze through the Culture with supreme confidence, agility, and wit... What a bold, promising debut by such a one-of-a-kind young writer.

Harris Lahti, fiction editor at Fence

I don't know what I can tell you about Earth Angel. In one way, it is the story of one million strong, beautiful, upper middle class women in modern America, and in another, truer way, it is an unhinged, joyous nosedive through every wild thought you've ever had played out real tender, like a movie. I love this book, please read it.

Sasha Fletcher, author of Be Here to Love Me at the End of the World

Raucously endearing, worldly but clear-souled, Earth Angel introduces an uncanny and crucial new voice. There isn't anything Madeline Cash doesn't know about the ruckussy graces of our present moment. I was laughing so hard, I didn't realize how fast my heart was breaking.

Garielle Lutz, author of Worsted

The stories collected in Earth Angel are like candy-pink nostalgia pills, crushed up and snorted during a weekend slumber party with your inner adolescent in the bedroom of your youth. Hilarious, insightful, and extremely online, this is the best debut I’ve read in years.

Chandler Morrison, author of Dead Inside

Earth Angel is vigorous, hilarious and demented. The nightmare of the now has a radiant and vicious new bard, and her name is Madeline Cash.

Sam Lipsyte, author of The Ask

The stories in Earth Angel are playful, charming, and a little bit devious -this is a striking debut by a writer to watch.

Chelsea Hodson, author of Tonight I'm Someone Else

If this is downtown Catholicism, this is its darkest, funniest, most nihilistic incarnation yet. The question of who - or what - is being skewered in these stories is an open one, but their sharpness is undeniable.

Lindsy Lerman, author of What Are You and I’m from Nowhere

Madeline Cash is at the vanguard of a new literature, one calibrated to the speed, madness and incomprehensibility of our modern world. The stories in Earth Angel - madcap, irreverent, and weirdly heartbreaking - race by like an Adderall-laced dream. But at the heart of this innovative, hilarious, original book is something as old as consciousness itself: pain.

David Hollander, author of Anthropica

Madeline Cash twirls through the detritus of our ravaged modern age in her charming debut, Earth Angel. Armed with an electric humour, Cash spins glittering tales of a physical world in decline, a surveillance culture lit by glaring LEDs that is dispossessed and irreverent, having forgotten how heavy with meaning it is.

Jen George, author of The Babysitter at Rest

Earth Angel is wonderfully vibrant and fresh. Madeline's stories are smart, hilarious, heartbreaking, and sharp. A glimmer of hope in the time of modern America.

Petra Cortright, digital artist