"The first great novel of the new century that takes the new century as its subject...It's big and ambitious, like novels used to be. It's about us, now. All of us."—Esquire
"Adam Haslett...may be our F. Scott Fitzgerald, an author capable of memorializing our crash in all its personal cost and lurid beauty."
—Washington Post
"It’s remarkable how successfully 'Union Atlantic' — so unlike [his] stories in structure and style, and so much broader in scope — continues the nuance of Haslett’s earlier characterizations."
—The New York Times
"Decades from now, this fine novel will help readers understand the period we've just been through."
—Wall Street Journal
"Union Atlantic should cement [Haslett's] reputation as one of America's great young authors -- there aren't many writers this original, and this intelligent, both intellectually and emotionally, around these days."
—Bookslut
"Exceedingly well written…a high-spirited, slyly astute exploration of our great bottoming out.”
—The Boston Globe
"Union Atlantic will possibly be the quintessential American novel of the first decade of the 21st century.”
—Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
"Union Atlantic is an indispensable book of the new century, because no book has nailed the new century so squarely."
—GQ
"Union Atlantic is a bleak, brazen, beauty of a book."
—Elle
"Emerging here as a sort of E.M. Forster of the aughts, Haslett high-steps nimbly from great tenderness to arch social satire, and from the civic to the personal. He even manages to make monetary systems...glow like poetry.”
—Minneapolis Star-Tribune
Read reviews and profiles of the author on the press page, more about the book on the books page, and see book tour dates and media appearances on the apperances page. Available now for pre-order: IndieBound, Amazon, B&N
Video Introduction to Union Atlantic
Nan A. Talese/Doubleday has put together a brief video introducing readers to the novel.Union Atlantic on National Public Radio
On Morning Edition, correspondent Lynn Neary aired a six-minute piece on the novel. Listen Here. On NPR's What We're Reading Now, she wrote: "Union Atlantic seems the perfect book for our times...Haslett has created memorable characters whose dysfunctional lives seem to embody the frenetic craziness and moral confusion of the era. Haslett's portrayal of contemporary America is funny and insightful. At times it also breaks your heart, because the people who live in this fictional world are so real and so stubbornly human."
Meanwhile, Alan Cheuse reviewed the novel on All Things Considered. Listen here.
On On Point Tom Ashbrook discussed the novel in an hour long broadcast with listener call-ins. Listen here.
Night Walk, a short story about the President
The author's first new short story in four years is part of New York Magazine's Political Fictions Project. You can read it here.
Esquire presents Union Atlantic
Esquire has selected Adam for its 2009 Best & Brightest issue. Their piece on the book is here.
Their excerpt of the novel (the prologue) can be read here.
And below, the author discusses the book at an Esquire conference.
Also, check out Adam's profile of politician Anthony Woods in the same issue.
City Visit, a short story from The Atlantic
Published back in 2005, this story was later anthologized in the O'Henry Prize Stories and an Ecco Anthology of Contemporary American Short Fiction.
"As they rose onto the bridge, Brendan leaned against the taxi window, gazing into the towers lit against the night sky, just as they are in the beginning of all the Miramax films, or the shots from the blimp when they show evening games at the U.S. Open—only now he could see the red-and-white streams of car lights rushing along the river's edge, beacons on the prows of ships jetting the waterway, a helicopter's taillights cruising down the glittering shore." Read full story...
The Illustrated Notes to My Biographer
In 2003, Thomas Quinn, the designer of this website, created a visual accompaniment to the short story “Notes to My Biographer” from You Are Not A Stranger Here with 15 illustrations in a 37 page book. This book aims to bridge the gap between traditional literature and existing visual storytelling mediums (such as graphic novels).
