Lyons’s latest book is Options:
The Secret Life of Steve Jobs, a satire about Silicon Valley which was published in 2007 to critical acclaim. His previous books are Dog Days (a novel) and The Last Good Man (short stories). As a fiction writer Dan has been the recipient of both a prestigious National Endowment for the Arts Literary Fellowship and the somewhat notorious Playboy College Fiction Prize. He also was named one of the “Fabulous 52″ in the 1996 Best Young American Novelists competition sponsored by Granta.
What the critics are saying:
“In the establishment-skewering tradition of Voltaire, Cervantes, Jonathan Swift and Laurence Sterne we now have a voice for our own digital age.”
-Newsweek.com
“Just as Tom Wolfe skewered Wall Street in the ’80s, Fake Steve Jobs lights a mini-bonfire in Silicon Valley with Options.”
-Entertainment Weekly
“Tongue-in-cheek and piquantly insiderish… hilarious and eerily specific… could have been called The Devil Wears Mock Turtlenecks.”
-New York Times
“A raw, honest look at Silicon Valley Culture… Options rushes from start to finish like a crazy maze of falling dominoes that just keep going and going and going. Fake Steve’s ruthless inner monologues about those around him ring truer than most nonfiction profiles of tech’s movers and shakers.”
-Wall Street Journal
“Try as I might, I couldn’t put it down.”-New York Post
“Unfettered by facts, Lyons inspires our prurient, page-turning fascination with a thoroughly unlikable narrator whose antics are at once unbelievable and vaguely plausible.”
-New York Times Book Review