Required Reading: The 7 Books That Inspired Anika Jade Levy’s ‘Flat Earth’

Required Reading: The 7 Books That Inspired Anika Jade Levy’s ‘Flat Earth’

“Flat Earth” is out now from Penguin Random House.

Frauds, Frenemies, and Flat Earthers: Inside Anika Jade Levy's Debut Novel

Photo courtesy of Anika Jade Levy. Anika Jade Levy, the downtown writer and founding editor of Forever Magazine, describes Avery, the narrator of her debut novel Flat Earth, as a “non-entity.” Avery is a writing student, ostensibly working on a collection of cultural reports on fringe and conspiracy groups in rural America as she shadows her best friend Frances on a documentary shoot of the same material. Frances drops out of school, leaves New …

Living Inside Collapse: An Interview with Anika Jade Levy - Chicago Review of Books

I sometimes find myself frustrated and bored by the narrow, grating approach of novels about twenty-somethings lost in New York spending too much time on their phones, but Anika Jade Levy transcends any and all preconceived notions of the subgenre and delivers an enthralling depiction of the persistent and absurd dissonance of contemporary life. Flat Earth follows Avery, a media studies graduate student in New York who spends the time she should…