You’ve probably heard by now that a bunch of Night Beats authors wrote an anthology, Instant Classic, with the proceeds donated to Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières to support their crucial work.

It felt a bit too circular to review our own book, so here’s what Michelle Browne, author of The Meaning Wars, had to say about it.

“A joyous, pitch-black, vicious read, Instant Classic is a scathing, direct hit on the experience of writing in the current era. It’s a grim business, this metafictional genre-spanning tale of corporate malfeasance and exploitation, and the people struggling to get by in the margins. Rife with metafictional references to the other stories in the volume, the shorts have a unified vision and vibe that cuts like the folded layers of Japanese steel.”

“This book might not hit for people outside the industry, but that’s okay. For the rest of us, who slave and dream over backlit screens and messy nests of pages, welcome. Unite. The only thing we have to lose is our chains.”

Read the full and unedited review on Goodreads.