Earth Angel

In her electric debut, Madeline Cash synthesizes the godlessness of a digital age into a glimmering, sublime, life-affirming collage of stories.Earth Angel is a book like no other, the paperback that swallowed the smartphone. An Isis recruit, an adolescent beauty queen, and a childless millennial walk into a bar. A Biblical plague rains down head lice, aerial drone strikes, gender non-conforming frogs. An app throws a slumber party for a friendless office worker. Texans in the winter, the Taliban in Springtime, Teslas with ℮☥ bumper stickers, Frozen 5 in Arabic, architectural consistency laws in Laurel Canyon, the longest recorded nosebleed in history. An unhinged jet stream that is ultramodern and poignantly timeless, capturing the angst of the post-millennial generation.  

Madeline Cash is a copywriter and contributor at Zora. She holds a B.A. from Sarah Lawrence College. Her work has appeared in The Drift, The Baffler, Carve, Hobart, and The Literary Review, among other publications. She is the founder and co-editor of Forever Magazine—notable contributors including Eileen Myles, Sheila Heti, Nico Walker, and Dennis Cooper.