Who Town

In Ms. Kirschbaum's debut satirical novel Who Town, Sarah, Rick, Roxy and Lola-specifically, one trend reporter and a few 'it kids'-form a dysfunctional downtown family in NYC. How they manipulate the media, and how the media manipulates them results in their public images differing vastly from their personal realities.

Susan Kirschbaum started her writing career as a journalist, penning fashion and art stories for Elle, Harper’s Bazaar, the Jewish Forward, the London Times, New York Observer, New York Magazine, and the New York Times, among others. She has written forwards and synopses for photography books for Steidl/Dangin, notably Roni Horn, Craig McDean, and Tierney Gearon. After dipping into investigative journalism and then personally, spending several late hours in back rooms with celebrities and rock stars, she decided to delve deeper into the human psyche and write fiction. She’s never looked back. Her first novel –”Who Town” — a social parody has been called by literary critics the “New York hipster Less than Zero." Her former agent described her as the love child of Mary Gaitskill and Bret Easton Ellis. There’s a second novel in the works that pays homage to some of her literary heroes including Nabokov, Philip Roth, Henry Miller, Jim Morrison, and her late grandmother Eva “Marge” Kirschbaum, all great story tellers in their own right.