Overview

Julian Tepper's fourth novel, Cooler Heads, is a story about modern love. With a triangulation of lovers and spouses, young children and careers struggling to get off the ground, in Celia and Paul we encounter two people in that pocket of life when the fight to figure out who we are and what we want burns brightest. A meditation on the limits of what we can and cannot have, set in a city-New York-that would have us think that we can have it all, Cooler Heads is a tour de force and impossible to put down, a literary triumph.

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"""Julian Tepper has written an autobiographical slice of late '90s/early '00s rock 'n' roll life with such ease that I recognized this world immediately, intimately.""--Lee Ranaldo, Sonic Youth ""An engaging novel and an insightful take on just how easy it can be to slip from the upper class."" --The New York Times ""A darkly humorous novel."" --WNYC ""Cooler Heads is a surprisingly delightful book given its heartbreaking subject. Tepper makes the dissolution of his hero's marriage, the loss of his job, and New York City's ongoing immolation of its own past all so entertaining that you may not notice the undertone of despair till after you've read the last page. --Will Heinrich, author of The King's Evil and The Pearls"

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Julian Tepper is the author of three previous novels, Between the Records, Balls, and Ark. His writing has appeared in The Paris Review, Playboy, The Brooklyn Rail, Zyzzyva, The Daily Beast, and elsewhere. His essay, ""Locking Down with the Family You've Just Eviscerated in a Novel"" was a ""Notable Essay of 2022"" in Best American Essays 2022. As a member of the band, The Natural History, he co-wrote the song “Don’t You Ever,” which was later turned into a hit by the legendary band, Spoon. He was born and raised in New York City and lives there still.

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