Bøger af T/James Reagan

Inspired by novels like Joan Didion's Play It As It Lays, Pushing Closer is a candid portrayal of one woman's journey to find herself by leaving everything behind. When an unexpected layoff gives Petra Dominick a chance to start anew, she takes it. She doesn't just leave her job, she also leaves her marriage, her home, and the state. Petra is beautiful, with an icy demeanor and a sensitivity that requires her to block out most of the world, but when she finds herself renting a room from the eccentric Tuesday Balfour, instead of shying away, she moves closer. In an effort to impress Tuesday, Petra slowly builds a life for herself, and in doing so yearns for more. When Tuesday hosts a dinner party and an intriguing woman catches Petra's attention, the possibility of romance arises and an affair ensues. With the atmosphere of a Sofia Coppola movie and laced with the wit of a Philip Roth novel, Reagan gently lets us fall in love with each of his imperfect characters.Part sapphic romance, part coming of middle-age tale, Pushing Closer forgoes the demands of relentless plot in order to feel like a walk down a suburban street on a cool autumn night.Carefully told and leisurely paced, Reagan's latest novel is a beautiful narrative that reminds us if you want it bad enough, anyone could be someone you could love. Readers who enjoyed Ottessa Moshfegh's My Year of Rest and Relaxation and Jay McInerney's Calloway Trilogy will find comfort within the pages of Pushing Closer.

In this neon-noir, Gabe, a quiet twenty-something, works at a small independent movie theater called The Waldorf. The pay is bad and the showings are never more than half full, but Gabe doesn't care, because The Waldorf is the only place where he can experience the neon blue smoke- a wintergreen pleasure that rolls off the film screen like the sweetest drug.Gabe's life is thrown into disarray when The Waldorf is closed, and he can no longer get his fix of smoke. Choosing to leave his one true love behind, Gabe sets out to find another theater that can conjure a sensation that he's become addicted to. During Gabe's road trip, his motorcycle breaks down, so he checks into The Dorchester Motor Inn until it can be fixed. While staying at the motel, Gabe meets Becky, who was instructed by a bizarre entity to meet with him. Together, the couple realizes that they might both be experiencing the same high strangeness, and this begins a search for answers. Neon Blacktop confronts such topics as the death of cinema culture, the rise in conspiracy theories, and the struggle of how to find the truth in a world overflowing with disinformation. Neon Blacktop is written in the tradition of the films of Richard Kelly, so lovers of Donnie Darko and The Box will find their craving for deeply emotional sci-fi satisfied in this story that is both intimate and sprawling.

Hot Blonde Girls With Heavy Eye Makeup tells the story of two sisters- Jillian, and Kendra. Jillian is hot and blonde, while Kendra is a social justice warrior. Jillian runs a pizza place/ bar/ salon called Blondies, while Kendra doesn't really do much of anything. When Blondies refuses to serve a group of brunettes, Kendra's life goal becomes to destroy her sister's business. We follow Jillian as she attempts to keep Blondies running, her employees happy, and her sister at bay. The book eventually becomes the female version of the bloods vs. the crips, where the brunettes go to battle against the blondes. Told in a bold, unique voice, HBGWHEM presents a darkly humorous look at female entrepreneurship, sisterhood, and the disturbingly common trend of the loudest voices getting the most attention.

Beach House Burning is a novel about being in your 30s, life not turning out how you hoped, dealing with who you've become, and wondering when it's time to give up on a friend. While serving as a sequel to Reagan's first novel, Lovetrust, a reader can pick this book up without having read a page of Lovetrust and will still have a full experience.Set a decade-and-a-half after Lovetrust, Beach House Burning finds Kurt Jones reconnecting with his friends from high school. During this reunion, each friend reveals that their life hasn't turned out how they thought it would. The only one who achieved their childhood dream is Levi Banes, who's now a Spotify-famous country music star. With the profits from his constant touring, Levi has purchased a beach house, and his idea is for everyone to spend a couple months in this house on the New Jersey shore as a "summer vacation" where they can address what's dragging them down. In the days following the dinner, one-by-one, each character shows up at the beach house, and what follows is a summer of introspection, arguments, and self-discovery.Exceptionally current, ambitiously told, and completely fearless, Beach House Burning is a return to the notion that a novel should be "word from the front" showing us how we live, while serving as a snapshot of a of a specific time for future generations.

In this haute couture-noir novel, T/James Reagan, author of Famous For Nothing, provides his post-Empire vision of the New York fashion scene.Reagan's novel explores all of the taboo subjects plaguing the fashion industry- racism, underage models, eating disorders, pervy photographers, human trafficking, unfair payment practices, and predatory castings.Empire Waste follows Andrew Lorrie, a disgraced fashion designer, who finds himself unemployable after a disastrous Spring/Summer fashion show. With no other option, Lorrie accepts a job designing a competitors ready-to-wear line. As the line progresses, Lorrie begins to notice that the models who are arriving for castings and go-sees are disappearing. No longer willing to idly stand by while the fashion industry destroys more girls, Andrew becomes devoted to saving these "replaceable" models. Lorrie confronts the industry as well as his own demons in a fast paced and introspective meditation on creation, pain, and exploitation.Empire Waste plays out as a fashion satire, as well as an exploration of New York City and the rules of the fashion industry.Reagan's Empire Waste proves to be a deeply personal exploration of a man living in a post-Empire world where nearly everything is disposable.

Written when the author was 24, T/ James Reagan's Famous For Nothing, is a post-Empire novel that explores the lives of five socialites as they search for meaning in a landscape populated with harsh critics and soft jail sentences. The problem with Famous For Nothing is that it's a book. No one reads books anymore. You probably read a couple blogs a day. When things get challenging, you're like, "Four straight paragraphs? Really? When did I sign up to a be an English major?" Famous For Nothing is a novel for the blog generation. It makes you feel guilty and inferior and superior at the same time. Hopefully, it also makes you laugh. It's about socialites. It's about wanting to be a better person. It's about wanting to be something more. It's about five girls. It's about new wave music. It's about second chances. It's a guilty pleasure that can be picked up in the waiting period between peeing on the pregnancy test and checking to see what your future is. Then you can put it down again. Maybe in the waiting room of Planned Parenthood, you'll read more of it on your phone. This is a novel for people scared of books. This is a novel for socialites, about socialites. So if the invites don't come in tonight, Famous For Nothing is here for you.

Lovetrust is a post-Empire campus novel about love and distance.Told through first person narrative, blogs posts, letters, and lyrics, Reagan's Lovetrust creates a literary collage of a group of young students as they search for true connection on their campus.Written while the author was still in college, Reagan's first novel gives a complete view of at the broken way the current generation gives and gets love.Part romantic comedy, part campus novel, and part coming of age tale, Lovetrust follows Kurt Jones as he attempts to connect with the women in his life during his junior year of college.Lovetrust is populated with characters grappling with their need for connection. Noni is searching for her missing brother, Gerard is searching for a talent he can turn into an identity, and Kurt is searching for a girl whose online journal has convinced him that she's his soulmate.Fans of Bret Easton Ellis' Rules of Attraction, and F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Beautiful and Damned will be thrilled by this contemporary campus novel.