BOOKS
Two handsome brothers from Beverly Hills are on trial for the brutal murder of their parents. The entire country is riveted.
So is Hugo Byrne.
A renowned journalist—decades sober, privately repressed, and haunted by the violent death of his own daughter—Hugo arrives at the Chateau Marmont to cover the trial for a glossy national magazine. He intends to write the definitive account.
But what happens outside the courtroom—the lives disrupted, in some cases ruined—is just as fascinating as the theater inside. And no one fascinates Hugo more than his close friend Liv Ellis, a quick-witted Beverly Hills society wife who accompanies Hugo to the trial, and whose obsession with the brothers is as mysterious as her origins.
An enthralling mix of true crime, high-toned dish, and dark psychological noir, Smog is a story of wealth, privilege, and abuse; a suspenseful inquiry into the dark heart of that universal institution that is supposed to protect us but so often betrays: the family.
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Please consider ordering from your local indie bookstore. Mine are Skylight Books and Book Soup.
WRITING
WRITE WHAT (SUBSTACK)
The Hard Year
Forty For Forty
On Pretend Cooking
SEWANEE REVIEW
In Praise of Panic
Stray Excerpt
Corona Correspondences
Her Kind: A Reaction to Lisa Taddeo’s Three Women
Stoned Fruits
Engrams, California
INTRODUCTIONS
“Among the Emotionally Dispossessed” - Introduction to the McNally Editions Reissue of John Gregory Dunne’s Vegas
“Nobody Got On with Their Life” - Introduction to the New Directions Reissue of Eve Babitz’s Black Swans
TRAVEL
Conde Nast Traveler “Discovering Familiar Magic on a First Trip to Disney World”
Conde Nast Traveler “In the Face of Mont Blanc”
Conde Nast Traveler “Spain’s Eternal Draw”
Travel + Leisure "The Way They Cook in Sicily"
FOOD
The Green Spoon’s Cub Street Diet
New York Magazine Grub Street Diet
T The New York Times Style Magazine “What One Writer Eats After a Slew of Rich Restaurant Meals”
ESSAYS AND CRITICISMS
The Paris Review "The Unravelers"
Vogue "Hooked on Love"
Literary Hub "Of Talisman and the End of Love"
Airmail Susanna Moore Talks with Stephanie Danler
New York Times Book Review “Two Novels for and About Lost Millennial Women”
ABOUT
Stephanie Danler photographed by Emily Knecht
Stephanie Danler is a novelist, memoirist, and screenwriter.
She is the author of Smog, forthcoming in March 2027, the international bestseller Sweetbitter, and the memoir Stray.
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 has received Honorable Mentions in Best American Essays 2018 and 2019, and her criticism won the 2019 Robert B. Heilman award from the Sewanee Review.
She is based in Los Angeles but is often in New York. She writes the Substack Write What and can usually be found there, or on social media @smdanler.
CONTACT
PUBLISHER
Please contact Katherine Monahan at Scribner.
FILM AND TELEVISION
Please contact Jiah Shin at CAA or Eryn Brown and Geoff Shaevitz at 360.
AGENT
For teaching, speaking, partnerships, and general inquiries, please contact Melissa Flashman at Janklow & Nesbit Associates.