Anthony’s debut novel,
The Convalescent, tells the story of Rovar Pliegman, a Hungarian-American who sells meat out of a bus. The novel is a farcical re-telling of the history of the Hungarian people and satirizes contemporary American suburbia. The novel was published by
McSweeneys in 2009 and won McSweeneys inaugural Amanda Davis Highwire Fiction Award. Her second novel,
Chopsticks, coauthored with graphic designer
Rodrigo Corral, was published by Penguin/Razorbill in 2012.
Chopsticks is “a multimedia narrative about a piano prodigy told through words, pictures and memorabilia,” published as both a traditional book and an app, was featured in
The Wall Street Journal and won Apps Magazine’s (UK) “App of the Year.”
Enter the Aardvark, published in March 2020, sold in a six-house auction to Little, Brown & Co. The novel follows a closeted Republican congressman and a Victorian taxidermied aardvark that ends up in his possession, and was called “an ingenious political satire” by
The Guardian. The novel was a finalist for the New England Book Award in Fiction, a
New York Times Editors’ Choice, and was featured in
Time Magazine. Anthony’s short stories have appeared in
Best New American Voices, Best American Nonrequired Reading, McSweeney’s, New American Writing, among other places. Her novel,
The Most, was published by Little, Brown & Co. and Doubleday UK in July 2024. It was longlisted for the
National Book Award for Fiction in September 2024. In 2025, she was promoted to senior lecturer in English at Bates College. Anthony is a 2026 Guggenheim Fellow. == Bibliography ==