Praise for List of All Possible Desires
“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
“The Rainey Royal books are the greatest literary puzzle since the Neapolitan Quartet, full of complex relationships among women and within families, revealing their full meaning only once you place the final piece.”
—Pamela Redmond, New York Times bestselling author of Younger
“Dylan Landis is the quintessential bard of the do-it-yourself morality of the seventies, its experiments and failures. These twelve stories achingly demonstrate how wounded children become wounding adults, toggling between states of burn-it-to-the-ground rebellion and moments of pure grace.”
—Janet Fitch, author of White Oleander
“These stories have the elegance and assurance of classics—individual jewels strung together into a stunning and mesmeric whole.”
—Dan Chaon, author of One of Us
“The entwined, can’t-put-them-down stories of List of All Possible Desires expand and relayer the endlessly compelling world of Rainey Royal. Rainey is all of us, our longings and contradictions, our frailties and strengths, our determination to take our mess of a life into our own hands and make of it an authentic work of art. These stories slice your heart in two—but then Landis heals and inspires with her exquisite prose, deep insight, and literary grace.”
—Tara Ison, author of At the Hour Between Dog and Wolf
Praise for the Rainey Royal cycle
“[Rainey is] achingly vulnerable and cruelly intimidating.”
—The New York Times Book Review
“Dylan Landis’s Rainey Royal is like its heroine: fierce, winning, and sharp as a blade.”
—Vanity Fair
“Rainey will remain in my mind forever as one of my favorite characters.”
—ELLE
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