A Goodreads Most Anticipated Literary Fiction of 2025

"[An] elegant debut novel. Hewett poignantly conveys the band members' passion, both for each other and for their music. It's well worth a spin." --Publishers Weekly

"Hewett brings a poet's ear for language to a complexly layered story that treats sex, drugs, and rock & roll as simultaneously hard-grained and gorgeous. Scintillating and absolutely unforgettable." --Julia Kastner, Shelf Awareness

"Each character's trajectory is resolved in surprising ways, like a minor fugue ending on a major Picardy third, making No Names an enjoyably dense, globe-spanning, philosophy-filled love story with a twist." --Deborah Copperud, Chicago Review of Books

"A tale of friendship, unrequited love and questions of paternity originating with an obscure punk band." --The New York Times

"A brutally poetic, endlessly captivating exploration of the transcendent power of music and all its impossible contradictions. With punchy, urgent writing, Hewett details the emotional and psychological complexity of fandom, obsession, failure, and the increasingly rare possibility of true connection." --Joe Meno, author of Book of Extraordinary Tragedies

"With a poet's expansive vision, Greg Hewett writes about all the ways that music crushes the distance between decades and individual lives, especially queer lives in search of orientation points. No Names charms with specificity and, in exchange, offers a life force." --Paul Lisicky, author of Song So Wild and Blue

"Greg Hewett has created a magnificent, tender punk musician who has a little problem with violence, who is innocent in his experience; a boy/man whose music illuminates his passions, his passions fueling his music. The music and Hewett's terrific hero live on after the final page." --Jane Hamilton, author of The Excellent Lombards

Praise for Greg Hewett

"[Hewett's work] is full of wonderfully quiet musings on vision and memory, cogent observations about longing and loss." --Lambda Literary Review

"Through his plainspoken language which is, at times, conversational and, at times, confessional we are reminded of our own desires, those things for which we do still burn." --Cleaver

"Complex, yet simple, resisting efforts at reductionist understandings of what comprises a man." --Signature

"Hewett is a master architect of the poetic suite, and his house contains many mansions." --D.A. Powell, author of Useless Landscape, Or A Guide for Boys

"Hewett aims deeper, darker. The stakes are high for this poet and his gamble pays off stunningly." --Kazim Ali, author of Northern Light

"Always, [Hewett] seeks the pulse of the unsayable prime beneath words, the visible vision in 'blindness deep and far.'" --Diane Seuss, author of Modern Poetry