The Book of Ayn

In a review for The New Yorker, Katy Waldman compares The Book of Ayn to the earlier novel Two Girls, Fat and Thin by Mary Gaitskill, which focuses on a woman who follows a Rand-like character. Waldman says that both novels "mock their characters, but they also argue that egoism can be nourishing and even generative".^[1] In The Washington Post, Maddie Crum praises Freiman's skill for writing comedy.^[2] In the Los Angeles Times, Ryan Chapman calls the book "one of the funniest and unruliest novels in ages".^[3] The novel was also reviewed in Compact,^[4] Kirkus Reviews,^[5] The New Republic,^[6] The New York Review of Books,^[7] The New York Times,^[8] and The Wall Street Journal.^[9]

• Excerpt published in Joyland
• Interview about the novel with Christopher Bollen in Interview magazine