Books

Call Me When You’re Dead 

Paperback – September 6, 2022    She Writes Press

Call Me When You’re Dead is a darkly comic novel about payback gone wild, gone sour, maybe even sweet. “If anything bad happens to me, I want you to get him.” That’s what Eleanor Birch’s glamorous friend Sasha Cole requests of her during a New York City dinner one hot August night. Something bad does happen, and Eleanor is forced to become another person altogether in the wilds of Manhattan, acting as her own little Pygmalion in the harsh world of advertising and its remorseless denizens. How she triumphs, and how her prey becomes first her ally and then her lover, makes her journey a tragic romp, a hilarious disaster, and even an all-out farce—but one with very serious consequences.

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Editorial Reviews:

“Reading an A.R. Taylor novel is like being shot out of a cannon—only a hell of a lot more fun. Call Me When You’re Dead is deliciously witty and smart, with the kind of fast-paced and completely entertaining plot that makes it impossible to stop turning the pages once the fuse is lit.”
—Jeanne Martinet, author of The Art of Mingling and Mingling with the Enemy

“A.R. Taylor can do no wrong. To be clear: She loves wrong. She revels in wrong. She rights and writes multiple wrongs in her books. And sometimes it’s all right in the end. Though sometimes it isn’t. Which seems to be why her latest novel perfectly lands in New York and the advertising world, a hotbed in several senses of wrongs. Let’s all give thanks that she writes fiction and is not a theologian or an apologist. Here is another tour de force from the indomitable, hilarious, brilliant, and (slyly) compassionate A.R. Taylor.”
—Joseph Di Prisco, chair of the New Literary Project and author of The Good Family Fitzgerald and Subway to California

“I grew up in New York, but A.R. Taylor showed me a whole new landscape of the city in Call Me When You’re Dead—the wilds of the advertising world. Some of her characters melted my heart, some made me roll my eyes, and others did both. No matter what, I was compelled to keep reading to discover the surprise around each bend and to see how those characters’ lives wove together, or unraveled.”
––D.J. Green, author of Inundations (out in Spring 2024)

“Delivering her stories with an irresistible wit and snark, A. R. Taylor talks about her newest novel, Call Me When You’re Dead. The charming Ms. Taylor gives us glimpses into her process, her creativity and this latest gem of a read.”
––John Busbee, The Culture Buzz on KFMG

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Jenna Takes the Fall 

Paperback – September 1, 2020    She Writes Press
Jenna Takes the Fall is the story of someone who became infamous before she became anybody at all. Age twenty-four, newly employed in Manhattan, she agrees to place herself under the dead body of a wealthy, prominent New Yorker––her boss––to hide the identity of his real lover. But why?

Because she is half in love with him herself, because her only friend at Hull Industries asked her to, because she feared anyone and everyone around her, because she had no idea how this would spin out into her own, undeveloped life. Because she had nothing and no one.  

Or just because.

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Editorial Reviews:

“Taylor’s latest novel begins with a grabber of a prologue. . . . An enjoyable escape that leaves you smiling.”
—Kirkus Reviews

“A dazzling debut. Jenna Takes The Fall introduces a hero who could have stepped from today’s headlines. This modern tale of a desperate ingenue who careens into power plays, romance, and wealth will keep you reading into the night and waiting for A.R. Taylor’s next novel.”
—Doug Stanton, New York Times best-selling author of 12 Strong

“A delicious title filled with every kind of possibility. Yes, A.R. has opened with a page-turner. Established something sordid and so of eternal human interest.”
—Robert A. B. Sawyer, Poet, Author of American Lullaby

“I am quite sure this going to be a really big book. Congratulations!”
—Anne Stanton, Co-Founder and Executive Editor, National Writers Series and Editor, Mission Point Press“

Jenna Takes the Fall is sharp, surprising, and highly funny. Jenna McCann is an ingenue only A.R. Taylor (and our batty society) could have created.”
––Charlie Haas, author of the novel The Enthusiast, humor writer for The New Yorker, and prolific screenwriter

“When I read the opening to Jenna Takes The Fall by A R Taylor, I was so intrigued that I had to download this book. The scenario of wriggling beneath the dead body of your boss was one of the most eye-catching beginnings to any book I’ve ever picked up.”
—Readers’ Favorite

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Sex, Rain, and Cold Fusion 

Paperback – October 14, 2013

Sex, Rain, and Cold Fusion – a lot of rain, a modest amount of science, and complicated sex lead David Oster into mayhem in the Pacific Northwest.

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Editorial Reviews:

“An unpredictable, winningly bizarre academic satire.” — Kirkus Reviews

“Funny, meticulously controlled fiction debut…” — Kirkus Reviews

“Crackles with wit, humor, and charm.” –Ted Bell

“Physics has never been funnier!” — Dr. Zaven Arzoumanian, Astrophysicist, NASA

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Read More from A.R. Taylor:

Male Authors and Their Female Voices: Literary Masquerades Paperback

Shortlisted for the Henry Murray Award at Harvard University

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Editorial Review:

“I love the idea of men choosing female voices to better admire themselves.”

–Diane Johnson

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