Daniel M. Lavery

Eustache Boch

Daniel M. Lavery is a former Dear Prudence advice columnist at Slate, the cofounder of The Toast, and the New York Times-bestselling author of "Texts from Jane Eyre," "The Merry Spinster" and "Something That May Shock and Discredit You." He also writes the popular newsletter The Chatner. He lives in Michigan. "Women's Hotel" is his debut novel.

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Women's Hotel

Fiction / Literature
HarperCollins
October 2024
ISBN 9780063343535
Hardcover, 272 pages

From the New York Times bestselling author and advice columnist, a poignant and funny debut novel about the residents of a women’s hotel in 1960s New York City. The Beidermeier might be several rungs lower on the ladder than the real-life Barbizon, but its residents manage to occupy one another nonetheless. There’s Katherine, the first-floor manager, lightly cynical and more than lightly suggestible. There’s Lucianne, a workshy party girl caught between the love of comfort and an instinctive bridling at convention, Kitty the sponger, Ruth the failed hairdresser, and Pauline the typesetter. And there’s Stephen, the daytime elevator operator and part-time Cooper Union student. The residents give up breakfast, juggle competing jobs at rival presses, abandon their children, get laid off from the telephone company, attempt to retrain as stenographers, all with the shared awareness that their days as an institution are numbered, and they’d better make the most of it while it lasts. As trenchant as the novels of Dawn Powell and Rona Jaffe and as immersive as The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel and Lessons in Chemistry, Women’s Hotel is a modern classic—and it is very, very funny. More/less

Something That May Shock and Discredit You

Memoir / Essays / Creative Nonfiction
Simon and Schuster
October 2020
ISBN 9781982105228
256 pages