Leigh Stein: “My greatest ambition was to ‘Be Anne Frank.'”
Anne Frank is alive and well. That’s the premise in Shalom Auslander’s new novel Hope: A Tragedy, where Frank is old, uncouth, and typing away in the attic of a farmhouse. Frank… Read more »
AUDIO: Leigh Stein reads from “The Fallback Plan”
Courtesy of San Francisco’s KQED: Leigh Stein reads a passage from her debut novel, The Fallback Plan, about what happens when you graduate college without a job or a fallback… Read more »
Approved: The “masterwork of the postcollegiate babysitting genre”
It takes a certain something to earn the hometown back-slap that is New York Magazine’s Approval Matrix. For a book to make its coolest quadrant — the one bordered by… Read more »
ADVICE: “Are text messages fair game for poetry?”
“The Fallback Plan” is a weekly column at The Faster Times written by Leigh Stein (author of the novel The Fallback Plan), that offers advice to those undergoing a second adolescence.… 1 / Read more »
Total panda-monium: Leigh Stein’s THE FALLBACK PLAN goes on tour
Last Thursday saw the launch of Melville House’s 200th title, The Fallback Plan by Leigh Stein, a hilarious debut novel that captures the youth zeitgeist and has been wowing the critics. The… 3 / Read more »