My first novel ACTS OF SERVICE was translated into seven languages and named a Best Book of 2022 by The New Yorker. The Guardian called it “a sex masterpiece” and Edmund White described it as “a book of exquisite moral refinement and almost intimidating elegance.” You can read more about it or buy it from my local bookshop.

My new novel WOMEN & CHILDREN is forthcoming in 2027 from Riverhead & Faber. You can read an excerpt of it in The New Yorker.

My latest writing is on Claire-Louise Bennett for The New Yorker and on mainstream porn for The Point. Here’s a recent short story about coming of age on campus in The New Yorker and another about jealousy and romance in Granta.

Recently I’ve talked to The New Yorker about sexual politics and books about erotic transgression, to Eminent Americans about porn, and to The Point about Edith Wharton.

In 2024 I wrote an advice column on sex and love for the philosophical magazine The Point.

This is what I read in 2023 and 2024.

I’ve lived in New York since 2012.

If you want to get in touch, you can contact Dan Kirschen at CAA.

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