Author Event: Meryl Branch McTiernan's "What You Should Really Worry About"

Tue Jun 02 2026 at 08:00 pm to 09:00 pm UTC-04:00

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Author Event: Meryl Branch McTiernan's "What You Should Really Worry About"
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A reading and conversation with Meryl Branch McTiernan, author of "What You Should Really Worry About," with Jennifer Belle.
About this Event

"What You Should Worry About is literary, feminist, sexual, brave, smart, and hilarious. Meryl Branch-McTiernan is a real voice of our city and time." —Jennifer Belle, author of Swanna in Love

MERYL BRANCH-MCTIERNAN is a novelist, essayist, and screenwriter. Her short fiction has appeared in the Brooklyn Rail and the Southampton Review. She cowrote and produced the comedy feature Katie’s Mom, which won the Audience Award for Fusion Features at the 2023 Dances with Films festival. She received her BS in television, radio, and film from the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University, and her MFA in creative writing and literature from Stony Brook University. She lives on Manhattan’s Lower East Side. This is her first novel.

JENNIFER BELLE is the best-selling author of four novels, Going Down (which was named best debut novel by Entertainment Weekly and optioned for the screen twenty-seven times), High Maintenance, Little Stalker, and The Seven Year Bitch; and Animal Stackers, a picture book for children (illustrated by David McPhail). Her stories and essays have appeared in the New York Times Magazine, the Wall Street Journal, the Independent (UK), Harper’s Bazaar, Ms., BlackBook, the New York Observer, Post Road, and many anthologies. Her most recent work is the novel Swanna in Love.

[ABOUT THIS EVENT: The rear half of the store will be used exclusively for this event. The front bar will be open to the public for drinking & chatting. Book browsing will be limited to a few display tables and shelves closest to the front of the store.]

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Book Club Bar, 197 East 3rd Street, New York, United States

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