Darcie Dennigan is a poet, novelist, literary critic, and co-director of the poets theatre group Spatulate Church Emergency Shift. Little Neck was previously a finalist for the 2022 Novel Prize, a biennial award for a book-length work of literary fiction written in English, sponsored by New Directions, Fitzcarraldo Editions, and Giramondo.
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"What a wonderful, strange, fierce, surprising, incantatory novel Darcie Dennigan has written. Oh, and it's funny. And it's not. May Little Neck find many readers, may it raise their eyebrows and drop their jaws and shake them entirely awake as it did me." - Laird Hunt "In the tradition of Marie Redonnet and Agota Kristof, Darcie Dennigan offers a vertiginous novel buttressed by a discomfiting, paratactic voice. Little Neck is earthy, creepy, and sodden with a fragmentary consciousness. The narrator advertises it convincingly: "My blood does not want to be cooled." If you had lent this book to Clarice Lispector, she would have read it and not returned it to you." - Sebastian Castillo "Lush and obsessive, twisted and lyric... Dennigan's prose is rich and gritty and evokes the visceral instinct to survive even under nightmarish circumstances" - Los Angeles Review of Books