Kristen Arnett

FOR ANYONE WHO'S EVER BEEN CALLED FUNNY AS AN INSULT From the New York Times bestselling author of Mostly Dead Things, a sparkling and funny new novel of entertainment, ambition, art, and love. Cherry Hendricks might be down on her luck, but she can write the book on what makes something funny: she's a professional clown who creates raucous, zany...

FOR ANYONE WHO'S EVER BEEN CALLED FUNNY AS AN INSULT From the New York Times bestselling author of Mostly Dead Things, comes a sparkling and funny new novel about entertainment, ambition, art, and love. Cherry Hendricks might be down on her luck, but she can write the book on what makes something funny: she's a professional clown who creates raucous,...

With Teeth is a wonderfully sticky novel about motherhood, partnership, sex, and love. Kristen Arnett lets her characters have the run of the place, and it's delicious fun to watch them do, say, and think things they'll regret. Sublimely weird, fluently paced, brazenly funny, and gayer still. A darkly funny, brutally honest story about a woman undone by motherhood. With...

Shortlisted for the Comedy Women in Print Prize 2025 'This novel is sweet, sexy, sad, articulate, and funny' Vogue Cherry Hendricks might be down on her luck, but she can write the book on what makes something funny: she's a professional clown who creates raucous, zany fun at gigs all over Orlando. Her life is a mess, but she's always...