Misfits, Mimes and Magicians: Kristen Arnett's New Novel Has It All — and We Have the Cover! (Exclusive)

Mar. 15, 2025

Stop Me If You’ve Heard This One, by Kristen Arnett

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The author, who is best known for her bestselling debut novelMostly Dead Things,is coming out with a new book next spring.Stop Me If You’ve Heard This Onewill delve into themes like entertainment, ambition, art and love, the publisher shared exclusively with PEOPLE.

The novel centers around the “humor and the joy of performing” and promises to be Arnett’s “most fun (and funniest!) novel yet.” And as readers have come to expect from her work, the book will also feature love, lust and sex, as well as “moving portraits of messy relationships.”

Stop Me If You’ve Heard This One, by Kristen Arnett

Riverhead Books

Readers may know Arnett from her sophomore novelWith Teeth,her breakout debut,Mostly Dead Things— which theNew York Timescalled an “irresistible first novel set in the hard sunshine of Florida,” or social media where Arnett has a devoted following onX(formerly known as Twitter) andInstagram.

Stop Me If You’ve Heard This Oneis due out March 18, 2025 from Riverhead Books and is available for preorder now, wherever books are sold.

source: people.com