Alexandra Tanner
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Alexandra Tanner Wrote a Novel for the Terminally Online April 01, 2024
Alexandra Tanner and I first knew each other on the internet. When we eventually met IRL through mutual friends, she told me that, once, she’d seen me walking on the street and whispered to her partner, fellow writer Sasha Fletcher, “That’s Becca Sch...
In ‘Worry,’ Illness Is the Status Quo March 29, 2024
When Jules Gold, the protagonist of Alexandra Tanner’s debut novel Worry, comes home to find her younger sister Poppy lying naked on the couch, covered in ice packs and crying, she knows exactly what’s going on....
The Author of "Worry" in Conversation with Sasha Fletcher March 28, 2024
I met Allie Tanner in November of 2016 at the Brooklyn reading series Franklin Park. The first words she ever said to me were “Are you okay?” (I was. I used to call the raffle at Franklin Park, and felt that microphones were for cowards, so I did not...
Alexandra Tanner on Her "Seinfeldian" Novel March 27, 2024
It’s 2019 and 28-year-old Jules Gold suffers from anxiety and internet addiction. (Who can relate?) She’s been living alone in the apartment she used to share with her ex-fiancé when her sister Poppy comes to crash. Recovering from a recent suicide a...
On Alexandra Tanner’s “Worry” March 26, 2024
BIG SISTERS ARE bullies. Big sisters have trauma. Big sisters are tired. They’ve been diagnosed with “eldest daughter syndrome”—for which there is no known cure. Are you the eldest daughter of an immigrant household or are you normal?Take it from a c...
Worrying With Alexandra Tanner March 20, 2024
“‘Is this Deadliest Catch?’ ‘Na, but it’s kind of like it.’” It might not be the Bering Sea, but the stakes are life and death in Worry, the anxious, Internet-chatter-infused debut novel from Alexandra Tanner. When life on the couch in Brooklyn becom...
On Trying to Create Something Real March 18, 2024
Writer Alexandra Tanner discusses dramatizing life, eliminating artifice, and the internet’s ability to bring out our worst selves....
Everyone You Know Will Be Reading 'Worry' This Spring March 08, 2024
Alexandra Tanner is in a near-constant state of worry. As we sip on mezcal cocktails in a Crown Heights watering hole decorated in golden tinsel, the writer tells me her current cure is watching documentaries about space with her partner. “I'm litera...
