Granta pre-empts Levy’s debut story collection on the ‘internet generation’ 

Granta has signed My First Book, a debut story collection by Gen Z author Honor Levy that explores “the online reality we all inhabit”.

Jason Arthur, Granta’s associate publishing director, acquired UK and Commonwealth rights (excluding Canada) in a pre-empt from Karolina Sutton at Creative Artists Agency. My First Book will publish as a paperback and e-book on 16th May 2024.

Levy is a writer from California. Her work has appeared in the New Yorker and New York Tyrant and been anthologised in Flash Fiction America. My First Book is her first book and contains the story "Good Boys" that appeared in the New Yorker when Levy was just 21-years-old.

Granta said: “Walking the wire between imagination and confession, My First Book captures both our cultural moment and the feeling of growing up in the internet generation. Debut author Honor Levy’s uniquely riveting voice emerges from the chaos of coming of age in the 21st century, only having lived in a post-internet world. Never far from a digital interface, Levy’s characters grapple with formative political, existential and romantic experiences in a web-drenched world simultaneously hyper-real, hyper-performative and on the brink of collapse. Amid the sense of imminent catastrophe, a fragile self struggles to form.”

Arthur said: “It’s not often that you come across a young writer quite as unique and exhilarating as Honor Levy. Her stories are both provocative and paranoid, saturated with irony and honesty.”