About this Event
Celebrate the paperback release of The Glow with author, Jessie Gaynor, in conversation with Adrienne Raphel. This book takes a satirical look at influencer lifestyles. Come find out how Gaynor is able to craft such a witty and thought-provoking novel of this modern-day culture.
ABOUT THE BOOK
A desperate young publicist tries to save her career by turning the charismatic leader of a grungy retreat center into the hot new self-care brand in this “wryly funny [and] fabulous debut novel” (The New York Times Book Review).
ABOUT JESSIE GAYNOR
Jessie Gaynor is the author of The Glow. Her work has appeared in Mother Tongue, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, The New Yorker, TASTE, and elsewhere. She is a senior editor at Literary Hub and she has an MFA in poetry from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where she was a Rona Jaffe fellow. She lives in Richmond, Virginia with her family.
ABOUT ADRIENNE RAPHEL
Adrienne Raphel is the author of Thinking Inside the Box: Adventures with Crosswords and the Puzzling People Who Can't Live Without Them, Our Dark Academia, and What Was It For; her writing appears in the New York Times, the New Yorker, the Paris Review, and elsewhere. She teaches at CUNY Baruch, the Writers' Foundry MFA at St. Joseph's, and the Mountainview MFA at Southern New Hampshire University. She's also on faculty with the Berlin Writers Workshop and serves as a mentor with the Periplus Collective.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Trident Booksellers & Cafe, 338 Newbury Street, Boston, United States
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