Deep Cuts

Praise

“This is so good it makes me want to puke.”—Haley Pham

“Permit me a confession. As a music lover, I collect definitive listening experiences. The DLE is that rare moment when a song so exquisitely captures a time or a person or a feeling that it stakes a forever-claim in your heart. Years later, that exact feeling can return like an emotional landslide, in a single chord. It’s the great gift of music, or in this wonderful case—Holly Brickely’s Deep Cuts. It’ll forever transport me to a time in late-winter, the fog on the San Francisco Bay, and the gift of these funny, deep-feeling characters I never want to leave behind. Deep Cuts is my latest treasured DLE, in book form, and it will live alongside all the unforgettable music that Holly writes about so beautifully, with her whole heart.”—Cameron Crowe, Academy Award–winning filmmaker and journalist

“A captivating love letter to the early aughts and the era of ‘indie sleaze.’ At its heart is the story of Percy and Joe—a tale of love, art, and the complications that lie between. But beyond their relationship, Deep Cuts delves into the raw, relatable realities of artistic ambition, toxic dynamics, and the complexity of growing up.”—Isaac Fitzgerald, TODAY

“It’s perhaps inevitable that Holly Brickley’s Deep Cuts will be likened to other noteworthy (feeble pun intended) books that incorporate music—most recently Daisy Jones and the Six, possibly High Fidelity, etc. What could have been a straight-up romance turns into something far more interesting.”—The Minnesota Star Tribune

“[R]ock novels are historically lame. Or a reboot of truth . . . But something brand new, that encompasses the reality and truth of being a music fan? I’m not sure any book exists that nails it as well as Deep Cuts.”—Bob Lefsetz, The Lefsetz Letter

“[D]azzling.”—Booklist, starred review

“It’s a banger.”—Publishers Weekly

“This is rich, immersive, and transportive storytelling, full of Walkmans and CD folders, love and yearnings (oh, is there yearning), and exceptional music writing. Songs and lyrics become charged with meaning as the characters use music to understand themselves and each other, and the result is breathtaking.”—The Bookseller, “Book of the Month” (UK)

“Smart, sensitive, and assured, Deep Cuts tells us as much about the hearts of its music-loving characters as it does about music’s power to distill overwhelming feelings into indelible art.”—Peter Ames Carlin, New York Times bestselling author of Bruce and The Name of This Band is R.E.M.

“I absolutely loved Deep Cuts—clever and heart-wrenching and addictive, the kind of novel that grabs you in an instant and takes you reeling through its pages.”—Miranda Cowley Heller, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Paper Palace

“I find it hard to remember the last time I found a novel so relatable and enjoyable. Prepare to fall in love with Percy and Joe this spring.”—Gillian McAllister, New York Times bestselling author of Wrong Place, Wrong Time