Paperback Parties!

Roxane Gay! Zoe Kazan! Lemonade!

Me, today

I love paperback book parties. I love hardcover releases too, of course, but those carry a lot of anxiety, whereas paperback parties are fun. This time, I had a vision—Crying in Public. The best part of my book tour has been crying with people in public, and so, that’s the plan. It’s no fun to cry alone, though, and so I invited some friends! Joining me to tell stories about crying in public will be….

The one and only Roxane Gay! Famous for being the world’s preeminent Bad Feminist and for loving baby elephants and Channing Tatum!

If you aren’t obsessed with Roxane and her wife Debbie, what the hell are you doing with your life.

The one and only Jenny Han! The person responsible for dividing the world into Conrad and Jeremiah teams and for TV’s best soundtracks!

I like that this photo looks like Jenny and her TSITP star Lola are standing with Taylor Swift. I would believe it! I believe in the power of Jenny.

The one and only Zoe Kazan! Do you know that Zoe has starred in/worked in more prestige literary adaptations that anyone else, ever? (Olive Kitteridge, The Plot Against America, Revolutionary Road, She Said, East of Eden, I’m probably forgetting a hundred more!)

Zoe isn’t pregnant anymore but look at how amazing she looked when she was!

And the one and only Grady Hendrix! I’ve read three of his books this year! One of my booksellers just got a tattoo of a line from his latest book, photo below!

Now that’s a fucking author photo.

Teo’s arm and a garbage bag. Glamour galore!

So if you’re in NYC and want to join us, tickets available here! It’s going to be in the store on Montague Street, so supplies very limited, but fret not if you can’t come, because I’m having a lemonade stand the following weekend and that will be fun for all! With free lemonade and cookies.

Here is my whole tour schedule!

And here are the links:

Brooklyn, 5/17!

Newtown Bookshop, 5/23!

BookTowne, 5/24!

Symphony Space, 6/1!

Chatham, MA, 6/15!

Nantucket Book Festival, 6/16!

Hope to see you soon!