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Recognition for The End of Everything

Megan's review of Tom Perrotta's The Leftovers in the Los Angeles Review of Books

Megan's essay in Salon on Tatum O'Neal and the Plight of Celebrity Daughters

The End of Everything was chosen as Richard & Judy's Lead Fall Book Club Pick at WHSmith Booksellers! For Richard & Judy's reviews, a free sample chapter, a Q&A and more, click here.

Read Megan's piece on suburbia for Mullholland Books.

Check out Megan's "playlist" for The End of Everything on Largehearted Boy

Hear Megan's interview with Edward Champion on The Bat Segundo Show.

Read Megan's interview with Scott Montgomery of Austin's beloved BookPeople.

See Megan's summer book picks in Time Magazine's "Pages to Turn, From 23 Writers We Admire"

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"Abbott isn't merely a poster girl for this increasingly progressive atmosphere surrounding 'genre.' Her novels are distinguished by rhythmic prose, historical settings, and a candor about the way people live." --The Millions

New York Magazine classifies The End of Everything as "brilliant"

A Marie Claire (UK) 'Long Hot Summer' book: "Already being compared to The Virgin Suicides (and, for once, rightly so)."

Megan Abbott's short story The Girl appears in this anthology The Girl, a short story by Megan Abbott



Megan has a new dark tale, "The Girl," featured in the new LA Noire anthology from Mulholland Books to accompany the blockbuster new videogame from RockStar Games. Read an excerpt here, and read about the project's incarnation on Megan's blog here.




Read Megan's review of Robert Crais's novel The Sentry in the Los Angeles Review of Books:
"...Crais unfurls all the classic hardboiled tropes -- false friends, false identities, and a woman as damaged and mysterious as one of Ross Macdonald's haunted beauties."

Read Megan's article on crime fiction's complicated new heroines in the Los Angeles Times Magazine:
Originally victims and femme fatales, the female leads in today's mystery fiction are now as damaged and complex as their male counterparts.

Megan appeared at the prestigious Quais du Polar International Festival of Crime Literature and Film in Lyon, France in March.

Read a new interview for the Spanish publication of Queenpin.

Visit Megan's new blog with the magnificent Sara Gran (author of Come Closer, Dope and Clare DeWitt and the City of the Dead).

Upcoming Appearances

The End of Everything
February 2012
Tuesday, February 21
Speed Chronicles: Book Talk/Signing
Featuring editor Joseph Mattson with contributor Megan Abbott
7:00pm
St. Mark's Bookshop
31 Third Ave.
New York City

March 2012
March 2-12
Adelaide Writers Week
Adelaide, Australia

Saturday. March 3
Panel with Paul Callaghan, Megan Abbott, Neil Cross
12-1pm
Sunday. March 4
Panel with Megan Abbott and crime novelist Jo Nesbo, chaired by Paul French
12-1pm
Tuesday. March 6
Meet the Author: Megan Abbott in conversation with novelist Susanna Moore
1:15 pm
May 2012
Murder at Sea: Mystery Authors and Mayhem Revealed
With authors including Don Winslow, John Hart, Stephen Hunter and more.
Visit here for more details.


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