The Royal Nonesuch

“The hipster cultural economy of the dot-com boom is skewered in this hilarious coming-of-age memoir.” — Publishers Weekly , starred review   Glasgow Phillips published his debut novel Tuscaloosa at the tender age of twenty-four. The results were disastrous: encouraging reviews, translations, a paperback sale, a film option, and a Stegner Fellowship at Stanford. But over the next two years, as Phillips’s second novel unraveled and freelance journalism assignments ended in humiliation, a hor