Wednesday
August
9 at 12:30 pm
A.M. Homes
This
Book Will Save Your Life
Talk • Booksigning
Since her debut in 1989, A.M. Homes has been among the boldest and most original voices of her generation, acclaimed for both the psychological accuracy and unnerving emotional intensity of her storytelling. In This Book Will Save Your Life, A. M. Homes explores how extraordinary the ordinary can be.
A.M.
Homes is the author of Things You Should Know, Music for
Torching, The End of Alice, In a Country of Mothers, The Safety of
Objects, Jack,
and Los Angeles: People, Places, and the Castle on the Hill. She
is a contributing editor at Vanity Fair and has published fiction and
essays in The New Yorker, Harpers’s, McSweeney’s, ArtForum, and the New
York Times. This is her first novel in six years. She lives
in New York City.
WORD FOR WORD is a Bryant Park lunchtime series presented in cooperation with Coliseum Books. Notable authors discuss their newest books at the Bryant Park Reading Room, alongside 42nd Street between 5th and 6th Avenues. Following the readings, the authors will sign books, for sale on site from Coliseum Books.
In case of rain, this event will be moved to the Coliseum Books Café.