Idlewild Foreword by Isabella Rossellini

Idlewild Foreword by Isabella RosselliniNAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY: Vox * The Paris Review * NPR * Vanity Fair A FINALIST FOR THE L. A. TIMES BOOK PRIZE FOR FIRST FICTION James Frankie Thomass Idlewild is a darkly funny story of two adults looking back on their intense teenage friendship, in a queer, trans, and early Internet twist on the Manhattan prep school novel. Idlewild is a tiny, artsy Quaker high school in lower Manhattan. Students call their teachers by their first names,

and discarded drafts of the novel

appreciating the simple things (“Don’t microanalyze every nice breeze that comes your way”)

a makeup artist

as Mayes describes

and copper roofs from eight iconic vantage points

Frank is really Sarah Emma Edmonds

to 20th-century illustrations showing Santa Claus

David Mamet

Star Style

this book provides a rare view of one team's championship season seen through the lens of one photographer

Pfistomel Smyke

the last of a reclusive aboriginal race