Stephan Salisbury
Reporter, Essayist, Author
Britt & Jimmy Strike Out
A Novel
“My name is Britt, and this is my account of the disruption as it happens, okay, that I’m telling because no one knows it like I do, having been disrupted and a disruptor and a flailer on the swirling sea.” —Britt
“The first great novel of the Trump Era”
“Despite its intimations of the near-future, this novel feels like a piece of the year we already live in, a moment when a nation of digitally bombarded “citizen-consumers” find themselves sold into bondage. Stephan Salisbury’s vision is focused and clear. His Pynchonesque, take-no-prisoners satire, coupled with startling wordplay, consistently astounds the reader. Britt & Jimmy Strike Out is the first great novel of the Trump Era.”
—Ken Kalfus, author of A Disorder Peculiar to the Country and Equilateral
Mohamed’s Ghosts: An American Story of Love and Fear in the Homeland
“This is a wrenching and outrageous story of our own shadow country conjured out of fear.” —Louise Erdrich
“A dark and important story.” —Gay Talese
“A solid journalistic exposé” —Kirkus Reviews
“Harrowing.” —Publisher’s Weekly
“Salisbury forces us to question our values as Americans, our national security and cherished freedoms. His is a book about the nature of fear – what it gives us license to do and say, how it colors our understanding of entire groups of people.”
—Angilee Shah, Zocalo Public Square
News
A conversation with Stephan Salisbury conducted by Sue Laizik for Cleaver Magazine
Review of Britt & Jimmy Strike Out
“This is a dark and deeply cautionary dystopian novel of extrapolation. But wait, come back — this is also a vivid, ingenious, and very funny novel.”
—The Inquirer