A charming yet scathing portrait of young adulthood at the opening of the twenty-first century, All the Sad Young Literary Men charts the lives of Sam, Mark, and Seth, as they overthink their college years, underthink their love lives, and struggle on through the encouragement of the women who love and despise them to find a semblance of maturity, responsibility and even literary fame. At every turn and misstep in their circuitous paths through sex, love, betrayal, and the writing of books, All the Sad Young Literary Men radiates the comedic warmth and biting honesty that signals the arrival of a brave and trenchant new writer.