Emma Cline’s second novel "The Guest" is the spiritual opposite of a beach read. It’s more like a "what if everything that could go wrong, did go wrong, while on vacation" novel. Cline laughs over the ...

Emma Cline, author of the New York Times bestselling "The Girls" (about the Manson Family murders), returns with a smoldering thriller about a young escort's search for a new sugar daddy. In "The ...

The new novel "The Guest" unfolds against a backdrop of wealth. It is high summer. We're in the Hamptons on Long Island. Everyone is rich. Everyone is attractive. The champagne is iced. The beaches ...

At a panel discussion for the New Yorker Festival featuring Emma Cline, Mary Gaitskill, and moderator Molly Fisher, Cline said John Cheever’s much-anthologized short story “The Swimmer,” which first ...

They say not to use high beams in fog. The water vapor refracts the intense glare of headlights back toward the driver in a way that actually decreases visibility. Best, then, to use low light. This ...

Emma Cline, author of the atmospheric and overhyped Manson-cult novel “The Girls” (2016), has returned with a sleeker study of seduction and delusion titled “The Guest.” Its heroine is Alex, a 22-year ...

Readers’ Books will host a young woman novelist who was raised in Sonoma for a talk about her latest book, “The Guest,” on Wednesday, May 17. Emma Cline’s recent work showcase’s her ability to get ...

Much like her 22-year-old protagonist, Alex, Emma Cline approaches her Hamptons-based psychodrama like an anthropologist studying coastal elites. When we meet Alex, she is in dire straits, but plays ...

We may receive an affiliate commission from anything you buy from this article. Emma Cline, author of the New York Times bestselling "The Girls" (about the Manson Family murders), returns with a ...