Adam Levin, McSweeney's, $29 (1,024p) ISBN 978-1-934781-82-1
Only four days pass between the opening scene of boys waterboarding one another to the moment when 10-year-old Gurion Maccabee and his army attempt to take down their unfair school system, but in the dense, frenzied pages of Levin's outsized debut,...
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Adam Levin. McSweeney's, $22 (256p) ISBN 978-1-936365-21-0
Readers put off by the enormity of Levin's debut novel, The Instructions (which clocks in at over 1,000 pages), can rest easy—this hilarious, tenderly wrought story collection dazzles without the commitment. In the hands of a lesser writer, Levin's...
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Adam Levin. PublicAffairs, $24.99 (288p) ISBN 978-1-61039-587-8
In this alarming book, Levin, a consumer advocate and founder of the consulting agency Identity Theft 911, warns about the prominent dangers of identity fraud in the increasingly digital world. Levin details the numerous ways in which individuals...
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Adam Levin. Doubleday, $28.95 (784p) ISBN 978-0-385-54496-2
Levin (The Instructions) takes readers to an alternate reality where people are obsessed with robotic pets called Botimals, or “cures.” The funny and occasionally moving narrative, which is set in 1988 and 2013, partially takes the form of a memoir...
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Adam Levin. Doubleday, $30 (592p) ISBN 978-0-385-54824-3
In Levin’s exhausting metafictional latest, a sinkhole opens under Chicago and swallows up big swaths of the city. Comedian and novelist Solly Gladman stays home with hemorrhoids while his family takes a trip to the museum, then disappear in the...
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