Easy to Slip

“At once memoir, novel, and reportage, Cal Hoffman brings us his remarkable gift for the most intimate storytelling: probing his own young psyche, through the language and tools of a writer, to unravel and overcome the hellish mysteries of psychosis. It is impossible not to marvel at this harrowing tour of the mind from deep within and the triumphant distance of recovery.” – —Carl Bernstein, Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist, author of Chasing History: A Kid in the Newsroom, All the President’s Men, and Loyalties: A Son’s Memoir
“An uncle’s sudden stardom has unforeseen effects on his nephew’s family. As his celebrity soars, an impressionable boy must grapple with new definitions of success and an unbearable pressure to be special. When he arrives at college in the gritty New York of the 1970s, his mind is overrun by malevolent voices and visions. Raw, brave, and gripping, Easy to Slip is an uncommon exploration of adolescence, psychosis, and recovery.” – Geraldine Brooks, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of March
“Intricate, hallucinatory, funny and harrowing, Cal Hoffman’s absorbing novel takes us deep into the psyche of an exceptional everyman, whose coming-of-age is at once singular and universal.” – David Auburn, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Proof
“With prose that is granularly precise and almost unnervingly intimate, Cal Hoffman’s Easy to Slip draws us deep inside the mind of a young man as he struggles against psychosis. Hoffman renders his characters’ experience with such visceral honesty that a reader cannot help but feel the terrible cost of the battle and the triumph of the hard-won victory.” – Marisa Silver, author of The Mysteries
“With the veracity of a diarist, Cal Hoffman uses vivid stream-of-consciousness prose to dramatize the story of a precocious young Columbia student doing his very damnedest to stay on the right side of sanity. It’s a story that touches the heart and the mind in equal measure.” – Doug Wright, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright of I Am My Own Wife

Cal Hoffman is the author of Easy to Slip, the acclaimed debut novel. He graduated from Catholic University and attended Webber-Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art in London and the MFA Fiction Writing Program at Columbia University. He taught English and creative writing, and as an actor performed in regional theater across the country, starring in the acclaimed New York revival of Jules Feiffer’s play, Elliot Loves. Cal lives with his wife, Victoria Leacock Hoffman, and their son, Harry, in Washington, DC.

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