Author Teddy Wayne | The Au Pair

The Coffee House welcomes author Teddy Wayne to the club on Wednesday, October 14th. Wayne will be reading from and discussing his latest novel, The Au Pair. In conversation with author, David Goodwillie.

PRAISE FOR THE AU PAIR:

“Is anything more dangerous than a fragile male ego?”
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“Nervewrackingly fun.”
—, Best Books of the Year So Far

“Wayne, perhaps no surprise, is an expert guide into the complex psyche of an author. He is also a deft social satirist, no more so than when skewering his characters’ politically correct pretensions.”
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“Wickedly entertaining…Wayne is devilishly sharp in how he explores the gap between Steven’s preening self-image and the insecurities, delusions, and plain bad choices underneath. And the way we’re constantly second-guessing Astrid’s motivations transforms The Au Pair into a genuinely suspenseful puzzle.”
—, Best Books of the Month

“Wayne is not upending noir so much as paying a sneaky contemporary homage. You’ll toss it across the room in maddening disbelief, then quickly pick it up and keep reading.”
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“[A] tightly constructed, endlessly fascinating thriller.”
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“Subtly subversive, thoroughly enjoyable.”
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“A heart-pounding mystery that reads like a movie.”
—People

“The reigning king of taut literary novels…Wayne knows how to write about men in a way that few modern writers are capable of pulling off…this is one you won’t be able to put down.”
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Teddy Wayne is the author of the novels The Au Pair, The Winner, The Great Man Theory, Apartment, Loner, The Love Song of Jonny Valentine, and Kapitoil. He is the winner of a Whiting Writers’ Award and an NEA Creative Writing Fellowship as well as a finalist for the Young Lions Fiction Award, PEN/Bingham Prize, and Dayton Literary Peace Prize. A former columnist for the New York Times and McSweeney’s and a frequent contributor to The New Yorker, he has taught at Columbia University and Washington University in St. Louis. He has developed films and series from his novels with Columbia Pictures, HBO, MGM Television, and others.

David Goodwillie is the author of the acclaimed novels KINGS COUNTY, a finalist for the 2020 Gotham Book Prize, and AMERICAN SUBVERSIVE, a New York Times Notable Book of 2010, along with the 2006 memoir SEEMED LIKE A GOOD IDEA AT THE TIME. His nonfiction has appeared in The New York Times, New York, Newsweek, Interview, The Daily Beast, and Popular Science. He has also been drafted to play professional baseball, worked as a private investigator, and been an expert at Sotheby’s auction house. A graduate of Kenyon College, he lives in Greenpoint, Brooklyn and the Catskills.