Marlowe Granados on Her Novel ‘Happy Hour’

Marlowe Granados’s debut novel, Happy Hour, is a picaresque for the glamorous and broke.

Photo: Ashley Pena for New York Magazine Only so many add-it-to-my-tab s can keep a girl comfortable in a bar like Bemelmans on a Friday night. The piano man is thrashing at his keys, but it’s really a waste of time; everyone is sloshed, and the crowd — a blur of wedges, polos, and pastels — suggests a midsummer bacchanale for permanent Hamptonites. “I love that about New York — everyone’s having a situation,” says Marlowe Granados, the 29-year-old filmmaker and artist whose debut novel, Happy Hour , will be published by Verso on September 7. That may be so, but the chances of baptism by marti

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