About the Author
Emily Nemens
Emily Nemens is the author of the novels Clutch (Tin House/Zando, 2026), and The Cactus League (FSG, 2020), both of which were NYT Book Review Editor's Choice selections. Her stories and essays have appeared in BOMB, Story, Zyzzyva, n+1, and elsewhere; her illustrations have appeared in the New Yorker and in collaboration with Harvey Pekar. Nemens spent over a decade editing literary quarterlies, including leading the Paris Review and serving as coeditor and prose editor of the Southern Review. She teaches in the MFA program at Bennington College and lives in central New Jersey with her husband and dog.
2026
Clutch
Emily Nemens’s Clutch is a tour de force, hailed as “powerful” (NPR), “a compulsive page-turner” (The Atlantic), and “White Lotus with more sincerity and heart” (LA Times). “I rooted for these women, loved them. . . . What I wouldn’t give to know that my friends and I will end up OK, to have someone with Nemens’s feral intelligence mapping our paths.” —Joumana Khatib, The New York Times
Press on Emily Nemens
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Elin Hilderbrand Just Recommended This Novel—and Readers Are Taking Notice
Parade
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15 Must-Read Small Press Books of Spring 2026
Electric Lit
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Millennial women are in midlife and they need to talk about it. A buzzy new novel dives in
Los Angeles Times
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Emily Nemens on midlife, friendship and her new novel
Los Angeles Times