Information Age (Joyland Editions Novella #1)

Named a Best Book of the Year by the New Yorker, a Most Anticipated Book of 2025 by The Millions, and more. 

The narrator of Information Age is a journalist at an online news site reporting on technology, the economy, and politics in the late 2010s. The rate of increasingly short news cycles shapes her working life and her personal life, as she assumes the role of reporter while talking with engineers, analysts, wonks, artists, writers, musicians, friends, family, and lovers. Told in vignettes and dialogue—overheard and divulged—Information Age is spare, funny, and attentive, a playful blurring of public and private life.

CORA LEWIS is a writer and reporter whose fiction has appeared at The Yale Review, Joyland Magazine, Epiphany, and elsewhere. She currently works at the Associated Press in New York, and she previously worked at BuzzFeed News. She lives in Brooklyn near Sunset Park.

Reviews and Praise for Information Age

“Wry… Laconic… A subtle meditation on the difference between what can and cannot be communicated… suggesting that intimate moments are the most difficult to convey.” —The New Yorker

"[Lewis] brings a journalist’s sensibility to her fictional work—always observing, overhearing, curating bits of information for delivery to an audience, in order to sum up the times. Information Age tackles the problems of work, mediation, self-determination, and reproduction amid the dizzying cultural landscape" —The Los Angeles Review of Books

“Beautiful… engagingly written portrait of a young woman’s life and times.” —Kirkus

"Compulsively, delectably readable—funny, sexy, sharp, charming, sly… I gobbled it up in one sitting." —Danielle Dutton, author of Prairie, Dresses, Art, Other and co-founder of Dorothy, a publishing project

"Lewis holds up pairs of objects in a mirror, and it's our pleasure to watch as their proportions warp. A modern, delicate exercise in juxtaposition." —Lillian Fishman, author of Acts of Service