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Stephanie Danler is a writer at work in Los Angeles, California.

 
 

Books

Hardbound

Hardbound

Paperback

Paperback

Hardbound

Hardbound

Paperback

Paperback

 

Books available at:

Bookshop.org

Please consider ordering from your local indie bookstore. Mine are Skylight Books and Book Soup.

 Television

Sweetbitter on Starz

 Substack

Instagram

@smdanler 

View fullsize Just before some larger mistake. Carl Phillips wins the mf-ing Pulitzer. Poetry lovers rejoice. This one from Reconnaissance. #carlphillips #bookstagram
View fullsize Read this at 3am, in a jet lag mania, will be haunted for the rest of time. What a perfect piece of art. Foster next. #clairekeegan #recommendedreading #bookstagram
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View fullsize I wrote something about the mother wound. Link in bio.
View fullsize Thou shall not get old. From “L.A. Love Cry” by Wanda Coleman, collected in “Native in a Strange Land” which is sadly out of print. #wandacoleman #recommendedreading #bookstagram
View fullsize As I said in my @airmailweekly profile, Susanna Moore is one of the most compelling novelists alive. THE LOST WIFE publishes today and here’s my recommendation: I started it in the afternoon. Then my husband caught me parked in front of the hou
View fullsize She’s still in there. @davepeterson & @triste_juventud forever. 💙
View fullsize Catherine Lacey’s brain is extraordinary and this novel is the literary, suspenseful, faux-artist bio I didn’t know I needed. It surprised me by filling a Donna Tartt/Siri Hustvedt/Ali Smith shaped hole in my heart, but with Lacey’s
View fullsize Or. From “The Beauty” by Jane Hirschfield after listening to her on @ezraklein. #smdpoets #janehirschfield #bookstagram
View fullsize Some wrestling with my “favorite” writer. Link in bio. Thank you thank you thank you for reading.
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View fullsize TLDR: if you like poetry, New York City literary lore, and coming of age stories, this is an exceptional book. Now the rest… I almost didn’t post this book. Not because of its merit but before it’s so niche and in a way, odd. My f

About

Photo by Emily Knecht

Photo by Emily Knecht

Stephanie Danler is a novelist, memoirist, and screenwriter. She is the author of Stray and the international bestseller Sweetbitter. She is the creator and executive producer of the Sweetbitter television series on Starz.

Her work has appeared in the Sewanee Review, The New York Times Book Review, Vogue, Airmail, T: The New York Times Style Magazine, The Paris Review Daily, Time, Travel & Leisure, CondeNast Traveler, and New York Magazine.

Her nonfiction received an Honorable Mention in Best American Essays 2018 and 2019, and her criticism won the 2019 Robert B. Heilman award from the Sewanee Review.

In 2022, she sold Smog, a neo-noir novel set in 1990s Los Angeles, to Scribner and Scribner UK.

 

Contact

Publisher

For inquiries regarding Stray and Sweetbitter, please contact Angie Venezia at Vintage & Anchor Books

Film and Television

For television, please contact Olivia Blaustein and for film, please contact Ruby Kaye, both at CAA

Speaking

For speaking engagements, please contact Madeleine Denman at Penguin Random House Speakers Bureau

Agent

For all other inquires, please contact Melissa Flashman at Janklow & Nesbit Associates