GIRLS THEY WRITE SONGS ABOUT by Carlene Bauer was featured on The New Yorker’s list of “The Best Books of 2022 So Far,” alongside an excerpt of their previous praise of the novel: “[A] prickly-coy novel…Bauer is a crackerjack chronicler of the slide into humility which follows ravenous early adulthood.” Farrar, Straus and Giroux published the book on June 21, 2022.