![]() Then there’s The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.ĭid writing about this prepper mini-society activate any COVID anxiety for you? Her treatment of the water crisis feels real, and it’s really funny. ![]() ![]() I’m also really obsessed with Something New Under the Sun by Alexandra Kleeman she’s talking about the water crisis in California, and she invents this synthetic water product that everybody is drinking. ![]() I’m a huge dystopia fan, and I don’t know if it informed my process, but I loved A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James. Vogue: What was it like, making the transition from comedy writing to fiction? Recently, Vogue spoke to Cauley about working her obsession with coffee into The Survivalists, making the conscious choice not to write a “COVID book,” the best thing she’s read recently, and more. Yet *The Survivalists-*author and comedy writer Kashana Cauley’s debut novel about a single Black lawyer who lets her budding relationship with a coffee entrepreneur lead her into an underground world of gun-stockpiling preppers-is definitely worth the plunge.Ĭauley has written for shows including The Great North and The Daily Show with Trevor Noah, and her debut novel is crafted with the kind of comedic timing you’d expect from someone with her resume, but the story is also spooky and suspenseful enough to haunt you long after you’ve put your copy down. After the past three years of the COVID-19 pandemic, you would be forgiven for feeling uneasy about exploring even fictional dystopias. ![]()
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