The Book of Ayn

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"Exactly the book I want to be reading right now." —Literary Hub, A Most Anticipated Book of the Year

"Lexi Freiman’s The Book of Ayn is a viciously funny and precisely observed satire of creative ambition under capitalism. It made me laugh, wince, and want to quit society. I loved it." —Isabel Kaplan, author of NSFW

"The rarest type of book—smart, hilarious, and audacious. A rebuke to both cynicism and self-righteousness that takes aim at pretty much everybody." —Erin Somers, author of Stay Up with Hugo Best

“I had the rare experience while reading The Book of Ayn of slowly realizing I had stumbled on something so good that it was changing my taste. So funny, so clever, so alive to the absurdity of contemporary life without reverting to the boring cynicism that would be so easy. I loved it.” —Megan Nolan, author of Ordinary Human Failings

"A maddening panorama of contemporary concerns, The Book of Ayn locks the dignified and the insouciant in hysterical alignment. Freiman is a writer of startling vision and verbal resource who deepens and subverts our cultural memory. Every sentence is liberating." —Zain Khalid, author of Brother Alive

"Infuriating, perverse, contrarian, scandalous, nihilistic, and very, very funny." —Tony Tulathimutte, author of Private Citizens

“Like stumbling upon a brilliant, abject meme in the dark, The Book of Ayn is a thrill. Freiman’s satire is fierce, outrageous, and omnivorous, lacerating edgelords and the virtuous alike. I haven’t had so much fun with a book in ages.” —Paul Dalla Rosa, author of An Exciting and Vivid Inner Life

"The Book of Ayn is an exquisitely wicked prosing of the reality-cancellation that now passes for reality by pretty much the funniest writer of a generation that has forgotten to laugh." —Joshua Cohen, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Netanyahus