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List of All Possible Desires: A Novel in Stories
  • Published: 9 June 2026
  • ISBN: 9781641297325
  • Imprint: Soho Press
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 304
  • RRP: $60.00

List of All Possible Desires: A Novel in Stories

  • Dylan Landis
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5 May 2026
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9 June 2026
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From the O. Henry Prize-winning author of Rainey Royal, a radiant, disquieting new linked story collection that spans decades and generations as it explores desire, damage, and dislocation amongst members of New York City’s artistic and unstable Royal family.

For fans of Mary Gaitskill and Lauren Groff.

A dazzling novel in stories from a master of the form that follows the Royal family across generations of obsession, betrayal, and reinvention.

For fans of Mary Gaitskill and Lauren Groff.

In postwar Paris, a boy is seduced by his mysterious nanny into the world of adult secrets. In 1950s New York City, a naïve caretaker struggles to protect her charge, a married woman paralyzed by her recent stroke, as new bruises appear each day on her body. In the 1970s, a fragile cousin wanders into the Royal family’s jazz-soaked townhouse, where music, sex, and ruin intertwine. And at the heart of these stories is Rainey Royal herself, coming of age in Greenwich Village, inventing herself as an artist through the tumult of the ’70s and ’80s.

By turns shocking, erotic, and deeply humane, List of All Possible Desires is a haunting portrait of family and history—written with Landis’s trademark beauty and precision.
  • Published: 9 June 2026
  • ISBN: 9781641297325
  • Imprint: Soho Press
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 304
  • RRP: $60.00
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Praise for List of All Possible Desires: A Novel in Stories

“Dazzling, electrifying, and razor-sharp, this collection brilliantly expands Dylan Landis’s New York of the 1970s and ’80s, a world where fragile, defiant girls grow into clear-eyed, truth-seeking women. Gorgeously crafted and fearlessly told—I savored every page.”
—Natalie Baszile, author of Queen Sugar