List of All Possible Desires: A Novel in Stories

Praise for List of All Possible Desires

“Landis is a sublime observer. Her characters feel several things at once and even the most deluded and destructive have their own motives and intricacies…the drama of it — convincing, startling, wrenching — brings revelations at every turn.”
—The New York Times Book Review

“A dazzling cycle of stories revolving around a complicated, fascinating, talented young badass … Other people write with words; Landis seems to write with mercury.”
—Kirkus Reviews, Starred Review

“Sharp, glittering, and emotionally dangerous all at once … This is the kind of literary fiction that feels alive on the page.”
—BiblioLifestyle

“Dazzling, electrifying, and razor-sharp, this collection brilliantly expands Dylan Landis’s New York of the 1970s and ’80s, a world where fragile, defiant girls grow into clear-eyed, truth-seeking women. Gorgeously crafted and fearlessly told—I savored every page.”
—Natalie Baszile, author of Queen Sugar

“The Rainey Royal books are the greatest literary puzzle since the Neapolitan Quartet, full of complex relationships among women and within families, revealing their full meaning only once you place the final piece.”
—Pamela Redmond, New York Times bestselling author of Younger

“Dylan Landis is the quintessential bard of the do-it-yourself morality of the seventies, its experiments and failures. These twelve stories achingly demonstrate how wounded children become wounding adults, toggling between states of burn-it-to-the-ground rebellion and moments of pure grace.”
—Janet Fitch, author of White Oleander

“These stories have the elegance and assurance of classics—individual jewels strung together into a stunning and mesmeric whole.”
—Dan Chaon, author of One of Us

“The entwined, can’t-put-them-down stories of List of All Possible Desires expand and relayer the endlessly compelling world of Rainey Royal. Rainey is all of us, our longings and contradictions, our frailties and strengths, our determination to take our mess of a life into our own hands and make of it an authentic work of art. These stories slice your heart in two—but then Landis heals and inspires with her exquisite prose, deep insight, and literary grace.”
—Tara Ison, author of At the Hour Between Dog and Wolf

Praise for the Rainey Royal cycle

”[Rainey is] achingly vulnerable and cruelly intimidating.”
—The New York Times Book Review

“Dylan Landis’s Rainey Royal is like its heroine: fierce, winning, and sharp as a blade.”
—Vanity Fair

“Rainey will remain in my mind forever as one of my favorite characters.”
—ELLE

Dylan Landis is the author of the novel Rainey Royal, a New York Times Editors’ Choice, and the novel in stories Normal People Don’t Live Like This, both in the Rainey Royal Cycle. Her work has appeared in the O. Henry Prize Stories, Best American Nonrequired Reading, and other anthologies. She has received a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship in fiction and lives in Los Angeles.

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