The Bored and the Beautiful

By Cat Marnell

A downtown "it" girl falls for an influential journalist who pushes her addiction issues--with love, pills, and headlines--to the breaking point, in the intoxicating and propulsive first novel from the author of the New York Times bestselling memoir How to Murder Your Life.

Meet Dizzy Calatrava: blonde, brilliant, and perpetually one cigarette away from collapse. It's 2012 and she's a downtown writer with a tabloid presence, a narcotics habit, and a tendency to treat New York City like her own private paradise. Unreliable yet unforgettable, Dizzy pops amphetamine pills like Tic Tacs, drifting between Thai rehabs and rooftop afterparties like a sorceress in platforms, narrating the apocalypse of her thirties in prose so sparkling you can feel it burn your nose.

When Dizzy meets Editor-In-Chief, a charming, fellow media personality whose bad behavior only helps his star rise, she wonders if perhaps she's met her true match. But is this a tale of two kindred flames igniting, or is Dizzy flying too close to the sun? The Bored and the Beautiful is a dark, feminine, and salacious glimpse into the mind of a lovable protagonist who you can't help but root for as she makes every mistake you can imagine--and probably some you can't.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GZDFVTF8
• ISBN13: 9798217090297
• Release Date: February 2027
• Publisher: Crown Publishing Group (NY)
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.3"