Caitlin Macy

“Wise and cryptic…Intriguing…(Smart, apt and slightly unexpected)…Sharply insightful.”—Janet Maslin, The New York Times


“[Macy] has an aptitude for anthropological apprehension, that dark, pith-helmet-wearer’s art of classifying peope by their habits and social markers.”—The New York Times


“Wickedly smart, unwittingly timely…[Macy] attains a wonderfully transgressive Cheever-like honesty.”—Vogue


“Laser-sharp…probes the heartbreak of high expectations, the self-hatred that can go hand and hand with a ferocious sense of entitlement. Read it and squirm.”—O Magazine


“An impressive, psychologically nuanced collection of stories on class and gender in New York…Sophisticated and intelligent, Macy offers the kind of subtlety that turns the ordinary into the sublime.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred)


“Superb…Issues of class and feminity are woven throughout many of these tales, and often make for interesting perceptions and sly conclusions.”—Booklist


“Macy is a writer [Edith] Wharton might well approve of…Her prose is tidy, assured, and graceful, and its restraint lends this book an old-fashioned clarity and confidence . . . In the end, these stories aren’t about money so much as they are about wanting, be it naked or sublimated, and about the distance between aqnxious women and their resolutely logical, maddeningly literal-minded men—and that’s what transmutes this book into an enjoyable read even for those of us who will never use the word summer as a verb.”—Elle


“Rewarding…Macy is especially adept at slyly pointing out the absurdities inherent in a social set where renting a summerhouse is a source of shame.”—Publishers Weekly


“Who else today writes so accurately about the impossibilities of privilege as Caitlin Macy? Packed with real wit and genuine rage, Spoiled is a gin-flavored litmus test, a  social X-ray set on stun, a grand entertainment, an argument starter. These deft morality tales grip us like the best gossip—then jolt us into feeling.”—Ed Park, author of Personal Days


“I was completely captivated by the keenly observed, superbly written stories in Spoiled. Caitlin Macy's characters are educated, strong-willed, and sometimes difficult girls and women who alternate, as all of us do, between lying to themselves and facing the truth; Macy's depiction of them, set against a very contemporary backdrop of class, gender, urbanism, and ambition, is so entertaining that it's easy to overlook how well-crafted this collection is. I'm hugely impressed and plan to recommend Spoiled to all my friends.”—Curtis Sittenfeld, author of American Wife