A collection of nine stories about love and life featuring best friends, princes, trolls, imaginary boys, and Simon Snow. Girl meets boy camping outside a movie theater. Best friends debate the merits of high school dances. In these nine stories, Rowell's characters explore love, life, friendship, and Simon Snow. -- adapted from back cover

What happens to characters waiting to be written? Anna is waiting. She's fully developed. She has personality, depth, a supporting cast-she even has a cat. But Anna has been stuck here for years, watching far lesser characters get called into their own stories. James is new. He's still taking shape. His backstory and motivation are changing every day. But James is so detailed, so crisp-so beautifully written-he must be destined for something great...He...

The outlandish and often controversial verses of bohemians, beatniks, hippies, punks, slackers, and other malcontents is collected in this primer of the dispossessed.