I truly love Nicole Flattery's writing.

Sally Rooney, Author of NORMAL PEOPLE and CONVERSATIONS WITH FRIENDS

Exquisitely disorienting . . . Gorgeous . . . This is a story of a young woman and the pocket of stale air that separates her from the world and from herself, the static between authenticity and performance, fantasy and reality . . . Brave and effective.

The New York Times

Flattery exhibits a keen eye for how often what looks like an escape hatch is another trap . . . a sneakily moving homage to human kindness.

The New Yorker

In fitting her complex, heartfelt, vexing characters into the spaces left where the names of Warhol's typists should have been, Flattery is finally giving those egos, or a version of them, a chance to tell their own story, in their own words.

Guardian

Flattery takes an inspired approach to showing how the stuff of our daily existence can, when mediated through technology, be made into a fiction. By writing of a pre-digital past that was so preoccupied with replicating and documenting itself, turning life into a performance, Flattery shows us that what's changed isn't human nature, just our technologies . . . The image[s] she conjures may ring true to many readers, a stark reminder of the fact that today, we're all living a performance, in a modern-day Factory, whether we like it or not.

The Atlantic

Nothing Special gives us a lens through which we see girlhood as a narrative of process, of artistic choice.

The Washington Post