Early in Emma Cline’s new novel The Guest, her protagonist Alex is introduced to the unspoken assumptions that govern the wealthy enclave on Long Island where she is spending the summer. Her ...
Emma Cline’s second novel "The Guest" is the spiritual opposite of a beach read. It’s more like a "what if everything that could go wrong, did go wrong, while on vacation" novel. Cline laughs over the ...
Emma Cline, author of the atmospheric and overhyped Manson-cult novel “The Girls” (2016), has returned with a sleeker study of seduction and delusion titled “The Guest.” Its heroine is Alex, a 22-year ...
WESA: Emma Cline on examining the Hamptons' frictionless façade in new book 'The Guest'
Emma Cline on examining the Hamptons' frictionless façade in new book 'The Guest'
The Conversation: A minor tragedy among the 1% – in The Guest, Emma Cline gives an outsider’s view of a culture of extreme wealth
A minor tragedy among the 1% – in The Guest, Emma Cline gives an outsider’s view of a culture of extreme wealth
The following article contains spoilers for the novel “The Guest.” “If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story,” Orson Welles said. Imagine, for instance, if ...
Vulture: Mary Gaitskill and Emma Cline Are Co-Presidents of the John Cheever Fan Club
At a panel discussion for the New Yorker Festival featuring Emma Cline, Mary Gaitskill, and moderator Molly Fisher, Cline said John Cheever’s much-anthologized short story “The Swimmer,” which first ...