Wall Street Journal

Fiction: ‘The Book of Ayn’ by Lexi Freiman

The novel follows Anna to Los Angeles, where she lives among Gen Z TikTok stars while struggling with her TV treatment (which, inexplicably, becomes an animated series starring a cartoon sheep called ...
Los Angeles Times

A ‘canceled’ author falls for a cringe icon in ‘The Book of Ayn’ (Rand, of course)

To answer your question: Yes, Lexi Freiman’s “The Book of Ayn” is about Ayn Rand, the bug-eyed author of “Atlas Shrugged” and “The Fountainhead.” The founder of Objectivism, which extols rationalism ...
Vulture

In Lexi Freiman’s Books, It’s So Easy to Be Wrong

This article was featured in One Great Story, New York’s reading recommendation newsletter. Sign up here to get it nightly. Lexi Freiman’s first novel didn’t change her life the way she thought it ...
The Washington Post

‘The Book of Ayn’ pokes fun at cancel culture

Lexi Freiman has the qualities of a great comic writer: She’s deeply skeptical, sparing no one, including herself; she doesn’t ruminate at the expense of good timing; and most of all, she understands ...
The Washington Post

The family roots of Ayn Rand’s unyielding vision

How much compassion is due someone who quite publicly hated the very idea of compassion? This question kept haunting me as I read Alexandra Popoff’s new biography of Alisa Rosenbaum, better known to ...