"I love writers who tell the truth and can tell it to me in a way I’ve never heard. Aiden does this and has a way of distilling a forty-five-minute existential crisis into a single sentence. Her superpower is being a critic without judgment; somehow finding the depth and beauty in the fucked-up world we live in."
–Phoebe Bridgers, singer-songwriter

“Aiden Arata’s You Have a New Memory is a kaleidoscopic portrait of growing up gripped in the fist of the internet age. These essays are tender, curious, and shamelessly smart. Arata understands the painful ache of wanting to be seen–and the price we pay for getting the very thing that we want.”
–Isle McElroy, author of People Collide

"Delivered in her signature undulating prose, Arata knits microscopic observations with the shock of humor, violence and unexpected pathos, resulting in a vivid, hyperreal effect."
–Nada Alic, author of New York Times Editors' Choice Pick Bad Thoughts