Named a Best Book of 2025 by The New Yorker

“An engagingly written portrait of a young woman’s life and times.” — Kirkus

“Wry… A subtle meditation on the difference between what can and cannot be communicated.” —The New Yorker

“Tackles the problems of work, mediation, self-determination, and reproduction amid the dizzying cultural landscape. " — LA Review of Books

The narrator of Information Age is a journalist at an online news site reporting on technology, the economy, and politics in the late 2010s. The rate of increasingly short news cycles shapes her working life and her personal life as she assumes the role of reporter while talking with engineers, analysts, wonks, artists, writers, musicians, friends, family, and lovers. Told in vignettes and dialogue — overheard and divulged — Information Age is spare, funny, and attentive, a playful blurring of public and private life.

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Press:

• “Briefly Noted,” The New Yorker

• “Millennial Moods,” The Los Angeles Review of Books

• Interview, The Creative Independent

• “Novella Roundup,” X-Ray Lit Mag

• Interview, Electric Literature

• Interview, The Los Angeles Review of Books

• “What Are You Reading This Summer?” Good Thing Going, Lena Dunham’s Reading List

• “Summer of Love” Book Recs, The Center for Fiction

• Kirkus Reviews

• Interview, Write or Die Magazine

• Interview, Cleaver Magazine

• “Summer Books Preview,” The Millions

• “Books We Can’t Wait to Read This Summer,” Vulture

• “Books to Check Out for 2025,” Hard Copy

• “‘Joyland’ Launches Book Publishing Arm,” Publishers Weekly

Praise:

"In Information Age, Cora Lewis captures the splendor and misery of being in your twenties in sly style... Lewis's gift for observation and condensation, her wryness, means that every page has that spark of recognition — in other words, the mark of truth." — Joanna Biggs, deputy editor of The Yale Review

“Welcome to the zeitgeist viewed from the Manhattan news desk of a shrewdly inquisitive young journalist... In Information Age, Cora Lewis’s delectable and harrowing and often very funny debut, she applies the flashing precision of a surgical tool to the material of our daily lives." —  Kathryn Davis, author of Aurelia, Aurélia and Duplex

"Lewis holds up pairs of objects in a mirror, and it's our pleasure to watch as their proportions warp. A modern, delicate exercise in juxtaposition. " — Lillian Fishman, author of Acts of Service

“Information Age is compulsively readable — funny, sexy, sharp, charming. It’s about work and friendships and family and learning how to live with strangers and with yourself. I gobbled it up in one sitting." — Danielle Dutton, co-founder of Dorothy, A Publishing Project

“Here is a writer preternaturally attuned to the grain of the world, as sensitive to assorted contemporary absurdities as she is to moments of grace… It’s a pure pleasure to spend time in Lewis’s sensibility.” — Hermione Hoby, author of Virtue and Neon in Daylight

“Incandescent… Radiating on a fiercely beating frequency of heart and truth… This is what it was like.” — Greg Jackson, author of The Dimensions of a Cave and Prodigals

Excerpts:

• “Information Age,” The Yale Review

• “Gold Pawn,” Joyland Magazine