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. 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 / A Best Book of 2025

• “We Look for What is Bright,” The Cleveland Review of Books

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

• Review, Full Stop

• Review, Kirkus

• “2025 Year in Reading," The Millions

• “11 Transportive Novellas You Can Read in One Sitting,” Electric Literature - Named a Best Short Novel of the Last Decade

• “Novella Roundup,” X-Ray Lit Mag

• “28 Book Industry Professionals Get Candid About the State of the Industry,” Vulture

• Interview, The Creative Independent

• Interview, Brooklyn Review

• 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

• 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, 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