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Finalist for the 2024 Pen/Faulkner Award for Fiction

“Told in refreshingly unadorned prose that lets Winnette’s characters
and ideas shine… Users is not only a book for today or a warning
about tomorrow, but a timeless and moving story…”

-Jessamine Chan, New York Times Book Review

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2024 Pen/Faulkner Award Finalist
New York Times “
Editors’ Choice”
New Yorker “
Best Books We Read in 2023”

Most Anticipated Title of the Year:
Elle
Entertainment Weekly
Vulture
Polygon
Esquire
… and more

The First Great Novel About Virtual Reality?”

-The Nation

“Users is not only a book for today or a warning about tomorrow, but a timeless and moving story about fatherhood and one man’s yearning for a more meaningful life.”

-NY Times

As irresistible as it is horrifying, Users is not your average treatise on the dangers of our tech-obsessed today (and tomorrow)…"

Elle Magazine

“Gripping, clever, and terrifying…

Esquire

 
 

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Namwali Serpell on Gayl Jones

Lauren Wilkinson on Sayaka Murata

RO Kwon at BOMB, Pt. 2

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Patrick Cottrell at Paris Review Daily

Patrick deWitt (live at Green Apple Books, SF)

Josh Mohr on E.L. Doctorow

John Darnielle on E.R. Eddison

Alissa Nutting on Sara Woods

Tiphanie Yanique on Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Elisa Gabbert on wine tasting

Nicholas Rombes on Joan Didion

Victoria Chang on Joe Wenderoth and Rachel Zucker

Brian Evenson on Samuel Beckett

George Saunders on Arthur Miller

Aimee Bender on Lydia Millet

Joe Wenderoth on Wiliam Carlos Wiliams

Rachel B. Glaser on James Purdy

Roxane Gay on Claire Vaye Watkins

Amelia Gray on Barry Hannah

Karen Russell

Lydia Millet

Brian Evenson

Ben Marcus

 

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Colin Winnette is a writer from Denton, Texas.

His most recent novel Users (Soft Skull 2023) was a Finalist for the 2024 Pen/Faulkner Award for Fiction, a New York Times "Editor's Choice”, one of the New Yorker's "Best Books of 2023”, and was called “The First Great Novel About Virtual Reality” by The Nation.

Winnette’s other novels include The Job of the Wasp (long-listed for the Believer Book Award and an American Bookseller Association’s Indie Next Pick), Haints Stay (one of “15 Westerns that Revitalized the Genre” -InsideHook), Coyote (an indie-bestseller and winner of Les Press’s NOS Book Contest), and Revelation (“A forceful book… about the absolute peril of desire.” -Ben Marcus). His novels have been translated into Italian and French.

His writing has appeared in numerous publications, including PlayboyMcSweeney’s, The Believer, Bomb Magazine, and more.

IG: @colinwinnette
Twitter: @aColinWinnette


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