Little Pink Book

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Breakout novel by Olivia Kan-Sperling, a Gen Z Paris Review editor whose super high/super low mixed media style is on the cutting edge of new literature, and who has published in n+1, Interview, Spike and Heavy Traffic. Originally conceived to accompany Diane Severin Nguyens video work In Her Time at the Rockbund Museum in Shanghai, Little Pink Book is the first major statement from this generation and milieu.

Little Pink Book is the mandatory, pocket sized instructional manual of our times, required reading for the new generation of American and Chinese workers and influencers. Following the melodramatic journey of aspiring starlet Limei through modern Shanghai, and using mediums ranging from pop lyric to polaroid to proverb, wunderkind Paris Review editor Olivia Kan-Sperling bursts onto the literary scene with the compulsively readable, boundary-breaking novel of Now.

Limei spends her days working in a coffee shop, her nights singing in neon-lit clubs, and her weekends posting her thoughts, feelings, and art to her blog. Sad and pretty, she dreams of fame and romance. After drawing the attention of a powerful, smirking, handsome, and cruel talent scout, the plot thickensand evaporates into fantasy. Like a realer-than-real shanzai object, borrowing from Tumblr, Chinese soap operas, communist propaganda, Hollywood war movies, and the romance novels of Eileen Chang, Kan-Sperling has crafted a work of literary genius, the first book to properly convey the world we live in today, as highbrow as our dreams and lowbrow as our reality, a cross-cultural fantasia that flattens time and space while expanding our horizons.

Author Bio

OLIVIA KAN-SPERLING is a writer and editor based in New York. She is an assistant editor and regular contributor to The Paris Review and her work has appeared in publications such as Interview, Praxis, Heavy Traffic, and Cabinet, as well as a book of Kendall Jenner x Lil Peep fanfic titled Island Time (Expat Press, 2022).