Tag: Amateurs

  • Review: Zachary Kocanda on Amateurs, a novel by Dylan Hicks

    Review: Zachary Kocanda on Amateurs, a novel by Dylan Hicks

    Amateurs, the sophomore novel by Minneapolis-based singer-songwriter and novelist Dylan Hicks, is about the consequences of shooting for the moon—or at least the New York Times Best Sellers list. A twenty-first-century novel of manners in the Austenian tradition, Amateurs spans the mid-to-late aughts, and after a short prologue, its sections are structured as prenuptial and…