Susan Kirschbaum

Susan Kirschbaum started her writing career as a journalist, penning cultural stories for Elle, Harper’s Bazaar, the Jewish Forward, the London Times, New York Observer, New York Magazine, and the  New York Times, among others. After myriad art critiques, then dipping into investigative journalism, she decided to delve deeper into the human psyche and write fiction. She’s never looked back.

Her first novel –”Who Town” — a social parody called the “New York hipster Less than Zero” — debuted in May 2012 on Amazon. *UPDATE 2013, Bret Easton Ellis, the author of Less Than Zero and American Psycho read Who Town. To quote him: "It was fun."

There’s a second satirical novel in the works that pays homage to some of Kirschbaum's literary heroes including Nabokov, Philip Roth, Henry Miller, Jim Morrison, and her eccentric late grandmother Eva “Marge” Kirschbaum, all great story tellers in their own right.

(**New Yorkers looking to support our neighborhood book treasure troves: Who Town can also be found at the Strand, 192 Books, Three Lives, Spoonbill & Sugartown (Williamsburg), and McNally Jackson, where it sold out a magical "7" times.)