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DAVID GOODWILLIE’s fiction has appeared in Swink, BlackBook, and other publications, and he is a contributor to the essay collection My Father Married Your Mother (Norton, Spring 2006). He lives in New York City.

In David Goodwillie's "powerful thriller" (Chicago Sun-Times), the lives of a young radical and a failed journalist intertwine after a bombing.

The New York Times - Malena Watrous

…hip and quick-paced…[Goodwillie] excels at jet-black social satire in a style reminiscent of Bret Easton Ellis…[he] has created two flawed yet sympathetic main characters, with distinct and memorable voices. In Aidan's voice, he has written a scathing and hilarious indictment of our bizarre moment in time, complete with jaded socialites, quasi-celebrities and the media that feed off them and one another. And Paige is a strong and memorable female heroine, whose sincerity keeps the novel from being a farce.