try (coming 2026)

try is the story of Jacob Kerman, the co-founder of a dating app called try. try is built around the differences between men and women: it shows the male users what they like about women; the female users what they like about men and then customizes everyone’s algorithm to make dating a made-to-measure process. The app is a hit and quickly gains a million users. But Jacob starts tracking Holly, one of Try’s most popular users, even as he’s begun a flourishing relationship with Brianna, Try’s newest employee. After Holly suddenly kills herself, with no apparent motive, he starts investigating her life and discovers a shocking secret about Try, one that involves cyber-hacking, fraud and blackmail. It will jeopardize his career and send him and his colleagues to jail—if he finds out which employee is behind it. Can he trust the people he works with? Will he destroy his relationship with Brianna? Will Brianna—who has her own history of deception—discover Jacob’s secrets? Socially relevant and sexually provocative, TRY asks if it’s even possible to find love in a world that’s too online. 

try captures what all young people are whispering about today: addictions to apps that are soul-destroying; how they have endless romantic options but are all still single; the impossibility of intimacy in the internet age; and how the angry rightward march of young men has combined with the despondent leftward drift of young women to create a raging cold war between the sexes that grows more noxious with each passing day. The book brings together the twin earthquakes in romance and technology: it feels like The Social Network meets The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P., with a Gone Girl-esque thriller driving the heart of the plot. Written with a mischievous eye for satire that takes no prisoners, it is the Millennial answer to Bonfire Of The Vanities that generation has been waiting their entire lives for: controversial, hilarious, and addictively fun to read.

The Dream Factory (coming 2028)

The year is 1970, and three individuals have just arrived in Los Angeles. Grace Turner is a method-trained theatre actress haunted by a troubled past. Julian Tyler is a brilliant and mercurial director with grand cinematic ambitions. Benny Cloth is a wide-eyed Jewish kid who’s spent his life cutting pastrami in his parents’ deli, dreaming of starting his own agency. Together, they form a trio, riding Hollywood’s most magical decade to extraordinary highs—making masterpieces and flops, forging friendships of a lifetime—except that both Benny and Julian are madly in love with Grace, and she’s not a polygamist. Providing the most vivid and unvarnished look at Hollywood since What Makes Sammy Run, The Dream Factory reminds readers why they fell in love with movies in the first place.

Sweeping across the entire country from 1968 to 1981, and built with the structure and momentum of a four-season television series, the novel offers a panoramic view of the filmmaking world—executives and publicists, studio heads and cinematographers, marketers and critics, dreamers and destroyers. But beyond the machinery of Hollywood, The Dream Factory asks the fundamental questions that underly great art: Do movies change America, or does America change the movies? Is all art autobiographical? Where do stories come from, and what makes someone a storyteller? For readers of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, The Dream Factory offers that same addictive mixture of love and ambition, art and infatuation, that’s so richly evocative of its 1970s Hollywood hue that you’ll want to watch its great pictures all over again.