Melissa Broder is the author of the essay collection So Sad Today and four poetry collections, including Last Sext. Her poetry has appeared in POETRY, The Iowa Review, Tin House, Guernica, and she is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize. She writes the “So Sad Today” column at Vice, the astrology column for Lenny Letter, and the “Beauty and Death” column on Elle’s website. She lives in Los Angeles.
ADVANCE PRAISE FOR THE PISCES:
"Funny and dark, vicious and tender, The Pisces is a sexy and
moving portrait of a woman longing for connection and pleasure in
our strange and alienating world. I can’t stop thinking about
it."—Edan Lepucki, author of Woman No. 17
"The characters in The Pisces are so finely drawn and
palpably real. These are some of the most real, relatable merman
sex scenes I have ever read in any book."—Megan Amram, TV Writer
and author of Science...For Her!
“The Venice Beach of The Pisces is familiar at first, but it
quickly transforms into a new place in which fantasy can become
reality overnight. I love how Melissa Broder navigates the
anticipation of lust, the consequences of love, the lure of
self-destruction, and the indecision between what seems right and
what seems crazy. This book is for anyone that’s wondered where
their longing will take them next.”—Chelsea Hodson, author of
Tonight I’m Someone Else
"I've long been a Melissa Broder fan but I had no idea a fabulist
novelist lived in her too. I've never quite read anything like the
surreal merman romantic comedy that is The Pisces! Broder has
always been a simultaneously out-of-this-world &
very-much-in-this-world poet/comic, so it's a wild delight to watch
her transition to modern-day mythologist. Sappho and Tinder,
mermaid porn and nervous breakdowns, the banal and the bananas
gloriously litter this uncanny marvel that is pretty impossible to
put down."—Porochista Khakpour, author of Sick: A Memoir and the
novels The Last Illusion and Sons & Other Flammable Objects
“Starting with Sappho and ripping through the Los Angeles lovelorn,
this exquisite story of romantic obsession deftly blends
existential terror with sexy surrealism for a one-sitting absolute
thrall. This book has my number so hard, I’m waiting for its
midnight texts."—Amelia Gray, author of Isadora
“Melissa Broder has officially written the modern myth: a
hilarious, surreal tale of addiction and academia, depression and
desire, mania and melancholy. Through the eyes of our
merman-obsessed anti-heroine, we become attuned to both the
poignancy and pointlessness of the human experience—from illusory
ambition to unruly erotic fantasy. (Broder writes sex like no one
else I’ve read.) The Pisces will have you LOL-ing while you’re
longing while you’re cringing while you’re philosophizing—this is
what it feels like to exist, and to attempt love, in the deluded
torpor that is our time.”—Molly Prentiss, author of Tuesday
Nights in 1980
"By fearless and perverted, full of desolation and of hope, The
Pisces is a novel that delves head on into the many dark,
absurd facets of human connection and coping in search of
meaning and comes back bearing fantastic flashes of a twisted
rom-com surreality only Melissa Broder's gemstone-studded brain
could conjure up."—Blake Butler, author of There Is No Year
PRAISE FOR SO SAD TODAY:
"These essays are sad and uncomfortable and their own kind of
gorgeous. They reveal so much about what it is to live in this
world, right now."—Roxane Gay
“If Melissa Broder weren’t so fucking funny I would have wept
through this entire book. Love, sex, addiction, mental illness and
childhood trauma all join hands and dance in a circle, to the tune
of Melissa’s unmatched wit and dementedly perfect take on this
terrifying orb we call home.”—Lena Dunham
"At once devastating and delightful, this deeply personal
collection of essays (named for Broder's popular Twitter handle) is
as raw as it is funny."―Cosmopolitan
"If her Twitter account is a darkly comic 'creative way to distract
myself and cope,' as [Melissa Broder] describes it, then her essays
are deeper excavations of that same mind."―Elle
"Her writing is deeply personal, sophisticated in its wit, and at
the same time, devastating. SO SAD TODAY is a portrait of modern
day existence told with provocative, irreverent honesty."―Nylon
"Instead of supersizing her angsty tweets, Broder presents a
dizzying array of intimate dispatches and confessions...She has a
near-supernatural ability to not only lay bare her darkest secrets,
but to festoon those secrets with jokes, subterfuge, deep shame,
bravado, and poetic turns of phrase."―New York Magazine
"It would have been easy for Broder to stay anonymous and simply
publish a book of @SoSadToday's most popular tweets, but instead,
she chose to challenge herself in what turned out to be a triumph
of unsettlingly relatable prose."―VanityFair.com
"Under her beloved Twitter persona So Sad Today, Broder is probably
the Internet's most powerful merchant of feelings."―GQ.com
"What a decadent, hilarious, important, devastating book this is.
SO SAD TODAY will explode on impact in your mind."―Jami Attenberg,
author of The Middlesteins
"With irreverence and wit, Melissa Broder confronts the most hidden
and grotesque parts of herself...Reading her, it seems that we're
all fucked-up, but it's because of this that we connect with each
other, fall in love, find contentment, and maybe even a little
happiness."―Sarah Gerard, author of Binary Star
"Irreverent, ballsy, impossible to put down. With courage and
humor, Broder shows us that the underbelly of self-awareness is the
existential sads."―Courtney Maum, author of I Am Having So
Much Fun Here Without You
PRAISE FOR LAST SEXT:
“The poems of Melissa Broder pull off a strange and compelling
trick: to exist meatily, viscerally, and even bloodily at the
center of a void. Holes thump through the pages, blankness crunches
bone, zeros growl with hunger. Each line is a little heartbeat
hurling down the abyss.”―Patricia Lockwood, author of
Priestdaddy
“Melissa Broder is absolutely one of the most important poets
writing today. Her poems eviscerate the reader with their misty and
murky charm, with their ability to say what is and not what should
be, for their love of life and the sensual, for their knowledge of
what it is like to be a person right now. Last Sext is a master
work, a text of brilliance written in a dusky field, for all of us.
‘Can you feel it?’ is what it asks us. And we must answer: for
chrissakes, of course, yes.”―Dorothea Lasky
“Broder’s poems offer a postmodern twist on the confessional, and
they push for action in the face of despair.”―Publishers Weekly
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