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“I can’t think of a better way to ruin your life than doing exactly this. Somehow Megan came out of the experience alive and with most of her friends (the good ones, at least), and with a book that isn’t just 900 descriptions of meals. This is definitely the only time I’ve ever thought of a writer as heroic. Yep, Megan most certainly is the strongest heroine in the alt lit scene.”

—Thomas Morton, Vice

“Megan Boyle is Edie Sedgwick but she gets out of the bottom of the pool. She comes back to life. She outlives Andy.”

—Elizabeth Ellen, author of Person/a

“I worked at a pizza parlor with Megan Boyle. I used to just think of her as the woman who made the pizza but now I think of her as a friend I can trust, the way I’d trust a neighbor or a tenant. LIVEBLOG is a work full of integrity, and Megan Boyle is a writer full of integrity.”

—Joseph Grantham, Tom Sawyer

“Megan Boyle attempts the impossible: a to-the-minute description of everything that happens to her. Like Zeno’s arrow that never reaches its target, the project is truly impossible, but in the margins we find something better: a life, a struggle, an irrepressible style.”

—Michael Hessel-Mial, greatest poet alive

“As a fan of LIVEBLOG from back when it was still digital, so I’ve had quite a while to compose my thoughts on it. The depiction of ennui in Boyle’s prose remains unrivaled; Her inspirational dedication to the liveblog project has brought one of the most empathetic books of the year.”

—Jean-Luc Goyard, @idiom666

“I read the first 30 pages first thing this morning while drinking coffee in bed. I feel really awake now and I think that’s more from the book than the coffee.”

—Ben Collins, Stephanie

“You may not know whether it’s pronounced ‘live’ or ‘live’, and that won’t dampen how Liveblog helps you notice you’re peculiar. You are as obsessive, self-conscious, intriguing, confused, and curious as Boyle is. You probably just didn’t write 269,000 words documenting why.”

—William Kaye, @williamkaye_

“Bold, honest, relentless. A shocking insight into the mind of a complete sociopath.”

—@displayglancer

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LIVEBLOG

MEGAN BOYLE