Katherine Heiny's fiction has been published in The New Yorker, Ploughshares, Narrative,Glimmer Train, and many other places. She lives in Washington, D.C., with her husband and children. Single, Carefree, Mellow is her first book.
“Single, Carefree, Mellow is a lot like the women who populate
it: smart and sexy and a little bit ruthless.” —Entertainment
Weekly
“Something like Cheever mixed with Ephron.” —The New York Times
Book Review
“Single, Carefree, Mellow is an extraordinary, cohesive story
collection that is so incredibly brilliant it alternately inspires
me and makes me really, really jealous.” —Elin Hilderbrand, author
of The Rumor
“A tour de force.” —Elle
“Katherine Heiny’s work does something magical: elevates the
mundane so that it has the stakes of a mystery novel, gives women’s
interior lives the gravity they so richly deserve—and makes you
laugh along the way.” —Lena Dunham, author of Not That Kind of
Girl
“Heartbreaking and darkly comic.” —The Atlantic
“Sharply perceptive . . . Ms. Heiny [has] powers of writerly
seduction . . . Ms. Heiny [has a] gift for dreaming up otherwise
smart women who lapse into temporary insanity while besotted.”
—Janet Maslin, The New York Times
“[Heiny is] a badass storyteller.” —The Huffington
Post
“Chances are you’ve already heard the buzz on this collection of
short stories, each of which has a relationship or affair at its
center. But no matter how good you imagine it is, it’s better.”
—Glamour.com
“Heiny’s smart and stylishly written stories are a delight. The
women who populate this book . . . are wonderful human and
relatable, both hapless and full of heart.” —Adelle Waldman, author
of The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P
“Not since Laurie Colwin has a writer so poignantly and wittily
depicted the joys of infidelity. Katherine Heiny knows the
secret: happy marriages make for happy affairs. Also happy
readers.” —Susan Rieger, author of The Divorce Papers
“Winning stories you won’t forget.” —People
“To encounter the wry, funny stories in Katherine
Heiny’s Single, Carefree, Mellow is to experience the
best form of simultaneous pleasure and sadness.” —The Philadelphia
Tribune
“Katherine Heiny where have you been all my life? . . . . There are
echoes of Lorrie Moore, Melissa Bank, and even Alice Munro, but the
voice is fresh and original throughout. More, more, more. Please!”
—Stephen McCauley, author of The Object of My Affection and
Insignificant Others
“It’s no small trick to write with lightness and humor that
nevertheless has an edge of tartness, but in story after story,
Heiny does so with aplomb. Her work is sharp and refreshing, a
parade of gin and tonics that somehow never get you drunker than
that first expansive, thoughtful buzz.” —Tin House
“Gorgeous . . . . Heavy lies the crown made of Grrrl Power.”—New
York Observer
“A quirky delight.” —The Columbus Dispatch
“Not all [of Heiny’s characters] are single (or carefree or
mellow), but they are all singular, and following their stories is
like sitting at a dive bar tossing back deceptively pretty,
surprisingly strong drinks with a pal who may not always make the
best decisions but always comes away with the most colorful tales.”
—Kirkus Reviews (starred)
“Somehow manages to be both laugh-out-loud funny and wise,
sometimes in the very same sentence. . . . This book is
amazing, brilliant, and nothing short of wonderful.” —Jennifer
Close, author of Girls in White Dresses and The Smart One
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