Sucker Punch
"Koul puts on a breezy and fleetingly filthy sideshow, but when she writes about gender and race she reveals that knife-throwing is her main act." —The New York Times
One of W Magazine's 'Best Nonfiction Books of 2025 So Far' • Named by Vulture and Literary Hub as one of 2025's Most Anticipated Releases • Named one of Electric Literature's '48 Books by Women of Color to Read in 2025'
From the cultural critic and bestselling author of One Day We’ll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter comes a poignant, bitingly funny, and unabashedly candid new memoir in essays.
Scaachi Koul’s first book was a collection of raw, perceptive, and hilarious essays reckoning with the issues of race, body image,…
$34.95
March 4, 2025
SCAACHI KOUL is a senior writer for Slate and a co-host of the Ambie Award-winning podcast Scamfluencers. She co-hosted the Emmy-nominated Netflix series Follow This, and her writing has appeared on This American Life and in The New Yorker, New York Magazine, and The Cut. You can also find her in documentaries like Quiet On Set and Pretty Baby. Her bestselling first book, One Day We’ll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter, was a New York Times Editors’ Choice, a Globe and Mail best book of 2017, and a finalist for The Leacock Medal for Humour and the Kobo Emerging Writer Prize. You can follow her on Instagram or on her Substack, Hater Nation. Originally from Calgary,…
Sucker Punch
Scaachi Koul