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Book SynopsisJulius Taranto's writing has appeared in the
Washington Post, Los Angeles Review of Books, Chronicle of Higher Education, and
Phoebe. He attended Yale Law School and Pomona College. He lives in New York.
Trade ReviewTaranto’s hilarious, provocative debut novel, is at once bracingly contemporary and reassuringly familiar . . . The novel’s peculiar genius lies in how you’re never entirely sure where Taranto’s sympathies lie. * The Times *
A punchy and very funny campus novel which manages to satirise the culture wars without ever making too clear which side of the cancel-culture v anti-woke divide the author stands on * Nicola Sturgeon *
A hit, a very palpable hit * The Spectator *
Outstanding * The Wall Street Journal *
Razor sharp . . . bracingly clever . . . a viciously funny page-turner with plenty of surprises up its sleeve * Vogue *
A gleefully irreverent satire of so-called cancel culture, virtue signaling, and early-21st-century hypocrisy. * The Atlantic *
Witty and provocative . . . Taranto understands the appeal of bad-man geniuses, and he understands their dangers, too. --
Vox, 'Best Books of 2023'
Very funny. Very good -- B.J. Novak
With
How I Won A Nobel Prize Julius Taranto achieves the near-impossible: a literary comedy about cancel culture that is neither priggish nor self-satisfiedly transgressive, less about culture wars than the neverending battle of being human. A novel of ideas in the tradition of Norman Rush's
Mating,
How I Won A Nobel Prize is one of the best new novels I've read in years. -- Tara Isabella Burton, author of
Social CreatureA wildly original debut . . . Can a high-powered male lawyer write a propulsive, smart, funny novel about science, cancel culture, and #MeToo with a female protagonist? Absolutely. It’s exactly what Julius Taranto has done in his debut,
How I Won A Nobel Prize. * Publishers Weekly *
A high-wire act, balancing savvy political satire with brilliant character development and prose that sings and guffaws with nuance * Shelf Awareness *
Julius Taranto does an incredible job crafting an ambitious and nuanced narrative abut "cancel culture" that'll keep you laughing from start to finish. * Coveteur *
