CASSANDRA NEYENESCH
is a Brooklyn-based writer and curator whose reviews and cultural pieces have appeared in The Guardian, Brooklyn Rail, Huffington Post, Public Books, The International Herald Tribune, and Art in America.

“In the enthralling A Little Bit Bad, a feisty true-crime obsessive’s erotic awakening in the canyons of California embroils her in her very own murder mystery. Pretty much  the platonic-ideal beach read.”
— Ada Calhoun, New York Times bestselling author of Crush

A Little Bit Bad has been selected as Kirkus’ Hottest Read of the Summer, as well as one of the LA Times’ “Ten Books to Read in May.”

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LAURIE STONE
Laurie Stone is author of six books of fiction, memoir, criticism, and hybrid writing, most recently Streaming Now, Postcards from the Thing that is Happening (2022), longlisted for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay. She was a longime writer for The Village Voice and critic-at-large on Fresh Air. More recently, she has written regularly for N+1, Paris Review, and Evergreen Review. She writes the literary Substack Everything is Personal, with over 16,000 subscribers. Her next book to be published in fall 2026 is The Marriage Dividend, Notes from the first year. You can read and subscribe to her Substack here: lauriestone.substack.com.

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RICHARD TOON
was the director of the Museum Studies Program at Arizona State University. He writes the weekly literary Substack Every Twenty Minutes. You can read and subscribe to his Substack here: RichardToon1.Substack.com.

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