- Published: 22 August 2023
- ISBN: 9781593767259
- Imprint: Catapult
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 208
- RRP: $32.99
The Novelist
A Novel

















- Published: 22 August 2023
- ISBN: 9781593767259
- Imprint: Catapult
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 208
- RRP: $32.99
"Castro’s fiction debut is as meta as it gets, but that’s part of its immense charm . . . Sweet, funny and beautifully written."—Michael Schaub, A NPR Best Book of the Year
"Jordan Castro’s The Novelist nails the experience of being online, in all its abject glory."—Kate Knibbs, WIRED
"The entire plot, or lack thereof, unspools over the course of a few hours. It's a clever conceit that Castro executes with disarming sincerity, exploring his narrator’s quotidian mundanities and interior life with reverence and precision . . . Where The Novelist most succeeds is in its use of tropes of the genre to transcend the genre, pushing its premise to some logical limit, stopping just short of the cliff over which the project might fall into a satirical abyss."—Gideon Jacobs, Interview
“Critical yet big-hearted, and always self-questioning and humorous."—Juliet Escoria, BOMB