Your Name Here

Helen DeWitt is the author of The Last Samurai, which has been named one of the best books of the 21st century by multiple publications. She is also the author of Lightning Rods, as well as a collection of short stories, Some Trick, and a novella, The English Understand Wool. She lives in Berlin.Ilya Gridneff is a Toronto-based journalist working for the Financial Times. Over the years he has written articles for The Baffler, Vice, The Guardian, The Sydney Morning Herald ,and Foreign Policy. He has lived and worked in Somalia, Kenya, South Sudan, Papua New Guinea, London and Berlin.

“A work of genius . . . What began as a playful collaboration became, like most of DeWitt’s work, weirder, riskier and more ambitious. After at least 20 drafts and countless revisions, it morphed into a 600-page work that resists categorization and almost defies description.” —The New York Times Magazine“An audacious metafiction . . . Readers will be left breathless.” —Publishers Weekly, Starred Review“An ouroboros—and a big one at that—of a postmodern yarn that threatens to swallow itself at any moment . . . At once bewildering and beguiling, and a groaning-table feast of words.” —Kirkus Reviews“DeWitt is a brilliant risk-taker. I truly have no idea what to expect.” —The New York Times, "10 Things We’re Excited About This Fall"“Your Name Here dramatizes the tensions and possibilities of political art.” —The Nation“Your Name Here is a chaotic book-length chronicle of the maddening process of writing and publishing the book itself.” —The Washington Examiner“Strange and fascinating.” —The Observer“It is a novel of permanent, persistent becoming, a story whose endings are multiple and essentially arbitrary, and it takes its own seeming unpublishability as a theme, or perhaps a promise… Reading a novel like Your Name Here, you can come to see that there are no real limits in literature, and fewer in life than you’d expect.” —The Atlantic“Refreshing[ly] bold . . . The structure produces opportunities for tension and momentum, winding around a convergence in which everything feels as if it is just around the corner.” —Los Angeles Review of Books“This is hit-and-run, take-no-prisoners writing.” —Times Literary Supplement“Although the book may appear, to begin with, to be plotless, it turns out to be tightly organized: a Godard-like enfilade of shaftings, a frontispiece-of-Leviathan-type portrait of the world as a great ‘Biz’ made up of millions of little bizzes . . . Your Name Here is a novel that doesn’t really believe in novels. The writing is delightfully shameless, disheveled and dissolute; globalized and pornified and digitized somehow, bit after bit after bit.” —The London Review of Books“Peerless.” —Lauren Oyler, author of Fake Accounts“Helen DeWitt and Ilya Gridneff’s Your Name Here has been the novel of the century for almost two decades, despite almost no one having read it. Now, at long last, Your Name Here is here. Not a rumor, not an excerpt, not a PDF: this is the real thing—a hilarious, insatiably imaginative meta-meta-meta-novel that takes every risk and plays every card and captures, maybe like no other novel, the internet’s jarring dislocations and formal possibilities. Still wildly ahead of its time, Your Name Here contains a multitude of voices so funny, so dark, so alive to every contingency that I wish it were twice as long. What a blast!” —Mark Krotov, coeditor of n+1 and The Intellectual Situation“A dizzying metafiction 20 years in the making.” —The Globe & Mail“This book is about books and how they relate to money, as a way of talking about the relationship between freedom and necessity, or body and soul. This is a novel you can play. Like a video game.” —ZonaMotel“Your Name Here is a significant text . . . the seed of other masterpieces.” —Cleveland Review of Books