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Emma Cline

Emma Cline is the author of The Girls and the story collection Daddy. She was named one of Granta’s Best Young American Novelists in 2017. Her next novel, The Guest, is forthcoming in 2023.

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Essays & Memoir | Issue 161 padlock
Essays & Memoir | Issue 161 padlock

The Erl-King

Emma Cline

‘He was our younger sister’s baby – her and her husband’s baby, I guess. They were young parents and excessively chill.’

Memoir by Emma Cline.

Fiction | Issue 152
Fiction | Issue 152

A/S/L

Emma Cline

‘It was the afternoons that did it, three o’clock like a kind of death knell, the house seeming too still, too many hours of sunlight left in the day. How had Thora even started going to the chat rooms?’

In Conversation | Issue 152
In Conversation | Issue 152

Emma Cline | Granta’s Best of Young American Novelists

Emma Cline & Luke Neima

‘I really like the artificiality of fiction, even though it’s often embarrassing and clumsy to create something out of thin air’

Five Things Right Now | Issue 152
Five Things Right Now | Issue 152

Emma Cline | Five Things Right Now

Emma Cline

The author of The Girls and one of our 2017 Best of Young American Novelist shares five things she’s reading, watching and thinking about right now.

Fiction | Issue 139 padlock
Fiction | Issue 139 padlock

Los Angeles

Emma Cline

‘It was only November but holiday decorations were already starting to creep into the store displays.’

Fiction | Issue 136 padlock
Fiction | Issue 136 padlock

Arcadia

Emma Cline

‘Could a place work on you like an illness?’

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