Susan Coll

Need a laugh? ‘The Literati’ is a delightful comedy of errors.
Need a laugh? ‘The Literati’ is a delightful comedy of errors.

Susan Coll’s eighth novel, “The Literati,” is a funny, sometimes zany comedy of errors with a splash of rom-com — heavy on the com and light on the rom, which is refreshing. While the main character, Clemi (from Coll’s 2022 “Bookish People”) would like a boyfriend, she is more interested in figuring out her life. Should she write a novel? Should she go to law school? Clemi’s career angst is the serious spine of an otherwise very funny book.

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Susan Coll was already an established novelist when she started working at Politics and Prose in 2011, and she promised the store’s owners that she wouldn’t write some kind of comic behind-the-scenes account of the beloved Connecticut Avenue shop. Oops. “I assured them that was not my intention,” says Coll, who ran the store’s programming and author events. “It truly was not! It just happened.”
Need a laugh? ‘The Literati’ is a delightful comedy of errors.
In 2011 Susan Coll routinely walked Reno Road. At the time, her marriage of almost 30 years was breaking up. And she was reading a lot of memoirs by women who’d gone through their own major life crises.
Need a laugh? ‘The Literati’ is a delightful comedy of errors.
If you’re fascinated by unexplained phenomena, hop in a beat-up Audi with the kooky and supersmart Cassie Klein and her dog Luna for a voyage of discovery involving a giant moth, a West Virginia bridge collapse and a hot cryptozoologist. The droll Ms. Coll strikes again!
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