oh hi
I’m a strategy consultant turned writer based in Washington, D.C. My debut novel, THE PORTRAIT OF A MIRROR, was published by the Overlook Press (ABRAMS) in 2021, and the paperback is out now. My nonfiction has appeared in Literary Hub, Electric Literature, and The Common, and I write a quite useless Substack newsletter. My literary agent is Sarah Fuentes at UTA and I’m represented by Berni Barta at CAA for film.
I studied English at The University of Virginia and have an MBA from New York University’s Stern School of Business. Prior to business school I spent five years working in the art world, at the Philadelphia Museum of Art and The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. I’ve been at Accenture ever since, though I no longer do client work; I’m now an internal subject matter expert, specialized in sales & pricing strategy.
Art mirrors life, and I’m also the inventor of a recursive estimation algorithm that’s been patented in the U.S. and Australia. Life mirrors art, and the new novel I’m working on now is about probability (and basketball).
Daniel Corey
WRITING
the portrait of a mirror
ABRAMS Overlook Press
A reinterpretation of the narcissus myth as a modern novel of manners about two young, well-heeled couples whose lives tangle and cross over the course of a summer.
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nonfiction
“Mirror and Window Both: The Brief Superabundance of Aubrey Beardsley” (Literary Hub, February 2023)/ On the man whose art outshone the words of Oscar Wilde
“Anxiety and Irresponsibility: What Is to Be Done About Literary Moralism?” (Literary Hub, October 2022) / On the rampant conflation of fiction and history
“7 Novels that Subvert Social Norms” (Electric Literature, May 2021) / On books that resist the pressure to conform
“Delusions of Grandeur” (The Common, February 2021) / On Versailles and Vivaldi and the aftermath of the 2016 & 2020 elections
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