“The Midnight Show is an utterly addictive read—I couldn’t stop thinking about it once I started. Kelly and Thorne expertly capture the cutthroat world of late-night comedy in juicy, hilarious detail, with special attention to the women at the center of it all. I loved it!”—Amy Tintera, New York Times bestselling author of Listen for the Lie
“Dark, dazzling, and impossible to put down, The Midnight Show captures the high-wire world of live TV and the secrets festering just offstage. With inventive storytelling and characters that feel achingly real, it plunges us into 1980s New York with all its glitter, gossip, grime, and glory and a mystery that refuses to stay buried—an absolute knockout.”—Chandler Baker, screenwriter and New York Times bestselling author of Whisper Network and The Husbands
“Book clubs, behold your next great read. The Midnight Show is all the things: a brilliantly researched deep dive into the world of New York City comedy in the 1980s, a meticulously plotted mystery, and a big-hearted ode to complicated friendships in all their messy glory. Readers of Taylor Jenkins Reid will fall hard for this groundbreakingly original, utterly immersive story, with its cast of characters who feel impossibly real. You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, and you’ll immediately want to talk about it with everyone you know. At times comedic, at times tragic, but always unflinchingly human. A spellbinding, wildly imaginative book.”—Laurie Elizabeth Flynn, USA Today bestselling author of Till Death Do Us Part and The Girls Are All So Nice Here
“A brilliant, electric ride. Reading The Midnight Show feels like being backstage at the birth of Saturday Night Live—complete with swagger, secrets, and the thrill of live TV. Nostalgic, razor sharp, and full of twists I never saw coming. Kelly and Thorne are at the top of their game with this one.”—Sara Ackerman, USA Today bestselling author of The Guest in Room 120
“The Midnight Show is my kind of escapism: meticulously crafted, hilarious yet grounded, and filled with characters who are my actual friends now—I don’t care if they’re fictional. Late-night comedy fans will find this extremely delicious, but so will feminists and nostalgists and people who enjoy being wildly entertained.”—Holly Brickley, author of Deep Cuts
“Juicy and addictive, The Midnight Show is an ingeniously crafted story about the chaotic world of late-night television comedy in the early ’80s, replete with internecine backstage politics, drug use, open misogyny, a terrifying new disease, and a shocking secret at its core. Both laugh-out-loud funny and piercingly poignant, this book had me in its grip from start to end.”—Cynthia Weiner, author of A Gorgeous Excitement
“Told through interviews, emails, articles . . . the story offers both an engrossing mystery and a convincing depiction of the challenges faced by women in show business in the 1980s. Fans of Daisy Jones and the Six should take a look.”—Publishers Weekly
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