My Weil

Praise

A Public Books Public Picks 2023

“Nonacademics love to laugh at the foibles of academics, but academics love it even more…” – BookForum

“Think Minima Moralia as a stand-up routine. You’ll want to quote whole pages. And then there’s the perfect, groan-inducing title.” – Public Books

“Eloquent, erudite, original, compelling, memorable, entertaining, My Weil showcases author Lars Iyer’s impressive and genuine flair for the kind of narrative driven storytelling skills that fully engage the reader from beginning to end.” – The Midwest Review of Books

“A satire of post-everything society … My Weil is devastatingly funny.” — The Shepherd Express

“[An] intriguing, character-driven book.” — Booklist

“Iyer… takes seriously his theme of existential dread. Memorable characters make this a singular exploration of the human condition.” –-Publishers Weekly

“Hilarious and cynical in the best way possible, Lars Iyer’s latest delivers the post-graduate satire you need as the new academic year approaches.” —Chicago Review of Books

“A perfect comic novel, My Weil shares the intense, urgent feelings of close young friends who are out to save the world, whether it notices them or not.” –Foreword Reviews

“Lars Iyer does it again! My Weil is a melancholic, yet joyful story of lost PhD students hoping to find themselves in modern Manchester, lured there by the music of Joy Division, The Smiths and The Fall, enthralled by a student named after Simone Weil. As ever, it’s thoughtful, punchy, and riotously funny – and will make you yearn for the halcyon days of the Hacienda ..” – Juliet Jacques, author of Trans: A Memoir and Variations:

Praise for Iyer’s previous books …

”[Iyer] is a deeply elegaic satirist…He manages to both send up intellectual life and movingly lament its erosion.” —John Williams, The New York Times

”Iyer’s swiftly paced, gently satirical fifth novel builds to a startling crescendo.” —BBC

”Fearsomely funny.” —The Washington Post

”Viciously funny.” —The San Francisco Chronicle

”I’m still laughing, and it’s days later.” —Los Angeles Times

”Stunning…absolutely exquisite.” —Emily St. John Mandel, author of Station Eleven

”What a fun book this is! Delight is such a rare commodity nowadays and it is terrific to see it has not been hunted to extinction.” — Daniel Handler, author of Bottle Grove