Deep Cuts

Quotes

“This is so good it makes me want to puke.”—Haley Pham

“Warm, nostalgic, totally engrossing. I loved this novel.”—Liz Moore, New York Times bestselling author of The God of the Woods

“It is fair to say that I am the target audience for this book . . . I had no idea where this book came from or how far away from me the author lives, but she spotted me through some kind of insane telescopic sight and fired. . . . I haven’t read anything quite like Deep Cuts before, because part of its subject matter is a contemplation of the educated, deeply-focused music fan’s relationship with talent. . . . Brickley isn’t aiming for immortality, which is maybe why it has a chance of lasting.”—Nick Hornby, author of High Fidelity

“Permit me a confession. As a music lover, I collect definitive listening experiences. The DLE is that rare moment when a song so exquisitely captures a time or a person or a feeling that it stakes a forever-claim in your heart. Years later, that exact feeling can return like an emotional landslide, in a single chord. It’s the great gift of music, or in this wonderful case—Holly Brickely’s Deep Cuts. It’ll forever transport me to a time in late-winter, the fog on the San Francisco Bay, and the gift of these funny, deep-feeling characters I never want to leave behind. Deep Cuts is my latest treasured DLE, in book form, and it will live alongside all the unforgettable music that Holly writes about so beautifully, with her whole heart.”—Cameron Crowe, Academy Award–winning filmmaker and journalist

“A captivating love letter to the early aughts and the era of ‘indie sleaze.’ . . . Deep Cuts delves into the raw, relatable realities of artistic ambition, toxic dynamics, and the complexity of growing up.”—Isaac Fitzgerald, TODAY

“It’s perhaps inevitable that Holly Brickley’s Deep Cuts will be likened to other noteworthy (feeble pun intended) books that incorporate music—most recently Daisy Jones and the Six, possibly High Fidelity, etc. What could have been a straight-up romance turns into something far more interesting.”—The Minnesota Star Tribune

“[R]ock novels are historically lame. Or a reboot of truth . . . But something brand new, that encompasses the reality and truth of being a music fan? I’m not sure any book exists that nails it as well as Deep Cuts.”—Bob Lefsetz, The Lefsetz Letter

“[D]azzling.”—Booklist, starred review

“It’s a banger.”—Publishers Weekly

“I absolutely loved Deep Cuts—clever and heart-wrenching and addictive, the kind of novel that grabs you in an instant and takes you reeling through its pages.”—Miranda Cowley Heller, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Paper Palace

“I find it hard to remember the last time I found a novel so relatable and enjoyable. Prepare to fall in love with Percy and Joe this spring.”—Gillian McAllister, New York Times bestselling author of Wrong Place, Wrong Time