![]() ![]() That’s probably why Red, White & Royal Blue became the year’s surprise best seller and the so-called book of the summer. “My brand is writing super of-the-moment books,” she says. Case in point: a party scene set to Lil Jon’s “Get Low,” featuring “that guy from Stranger Things” and a nameless actress “from the new Spider-Man movies.” But this is what it means to be 28-year-old McQuiston, who worked in magazine publishing before writing her book. It also shows in the hyper-specificity of her debut novel, Red, White & Royal Blue, a romantic comedy with a distinctly 2019 sensibility, thanks to the near relentlessness of its pop-culture references. It shows in the way she speaks about cancel culture, Twitter reply guys, and the eternal bingeability of Parks and Recreation in the span of one conversation. ![]() ![]() Casey McQuiston is a child of the internet, and it shows. ![]()
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