Molly (memoir)

Molly is a 2023 memoir written by Blake Butler and published by Archway Editions.

It is a work of autobiography concerning his marriage to and subsequent suicide of the poet Molly Brodak.

[1] Blake Butler is the author of several books, including Alice Knott (Riverhead, 2020), Nothing: A Portrait of Insomnia (Harper Perennial, 2011),[2] and Scorch Atlas (Featherproof Books, 2009).

Prior to publication excerpts appeared in The Paris Review and Harper's.

[3][4] Jessica Ferri in the Los Angeles Times called it "the best book I've read this year,"[1] while in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Suzanne Van Atten wrote that it is a "dark, gorgeously crafted read".