Author Panel Discussion-Tobias Carroll, Christina Cooke, and Ian S. Maloney

All are welcome to listen to this amazing panel of authors discuss their newest titles and express their process of creating and publishing a book!

Following the presentation, there will be books for purchase and a signing!

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-Saturday, July 13th at 7pm-

Learn a little bit about the authors and their books!

About Tobias Carroll:
Tobias Carroll is the author of three novels (In the Sight, Ex-Members, and Reel), one short story collection (Transitory), and a work of nonfiction (Political Sign) released as part of the Object Lessons series. He writes a monthly column about books in translation for Words Without Borders and is the managing editor of Vol. 1 Brooklyn. His writing has been published in places like the New York Times, InsideHook, Literary Hub, Tor.com, and the Portland Press-Herald.

About Carroll's Newest Book, IN THE SIGHT:

Farrier had been raised in the East… Furtive spaces on the outskirts of cities, truck stops in the middle of nowhere, and obscure research outposts — those are the places where Farrier did his work. What’s the nature of that work, you ask? DIY brain modification, for starters — highly experimental and in no way legal. When his past catches up with him, Farrier sets out on a road trip without end, frenetically crossing the country in search of redemption, revisiting old haunts along the way. This tale of open roads, weird science, and endless reinvention draws inspiration from Destroyer’s 2002 album This Night. It also features aviaries gone wrong, obscure retail outlets, and coffee. So much coffee. Don’t try this at home, readers.

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About Christina Cooke:

Christina Cooke’s debut novel Broughtupsy was published earlier this year on January 23 and has been named a "Most Anticipated" title by over 20 publications across the U.S., UK, Canada, and the Caribbean -- such as The Atlantic, ELLE, and CBC Books. A MacDowell Fellow and Journey Prize winner, she holds a Master of Arts from the University of New Brunswick and a Master of Fine Arts from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Her short fiction and nonfiction has appeared or is forthcoming in The Caribbean Writer, PRISM International, Apogee, Prairie Schooner, Epiphany, Michigan Quarterly Review, Lambda Literary Review, and others. Born in Jamaica, Christina is now a Canadian citizen who lives and writes in New York City.

About Cooke's Newest Book, BROUGHTUPSY:

At once cinematic yet intimate, Broughtupsy is an enthralling debut novel about a young Jamaican woman grappling with grief as she discovers her family, her home, is always just out of reach. Tired of not having a place to land, twenty-year-old Akúa flies from Canada to her native Jamaica to reconnect with her estranged sister Tamika. Their younger brother Bryson has recently passed from sickle cell anemia—the same disease that took their mother ten years prior—and Akúa carries his remains in a small wooden box with the hope of reassembling her family.
Over the span of two fateful weeks, Akúa and Tamika visit significant places from their childhood, but time spent with her sister only clarifies how different they are, and how years of living abroad have distanced Akúa from her home culture. "Am I Jamaican?" she asks herself again and again. Beneath these haunting doubts lie anger and resentment at being abandoned by her own blood. "Why didn’t you stay with me?" she wants to ask Tamika.
Wandering through Kingston with her brother's ashes in tow, Akúa meets Jayda, a brash stripper who shows her a different side of the city. As the two grow closer, Akúa confronts the difficult reality of being gay in a deeply religious family, and what being a gay woman in Jamaica actually means.
By turns diasporic family saga, bildungsroman, and terse sexual awakening, Broughtupsy is a profoundly moving debut novel that asks: what do we truly owe our family, and what are we willing to do to savor the feeling of home?

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About Ian S. Maloney:

Ian S. Maloney grew up in Marinw Park, Brooklyn, where he worked as a NYS Pest Control Technician. Ian is Director of the Jack Hazard Fellowship for the New Literary Project in Oakland, California and Contributor at Vol. 1 Brooklyn. Ian serves on the Literary Council for the Brooklyn Book Festival and on the Board of the Walt Whitman Initiative. South Brooklyn Exterminating is his debut work of fiction.

About Maloney's Newest Book, SOUTH BROOKLYN EXTERMINATING:

South Brooklyn Exterminating immediately takes its place among the plain-spoken, hilarious, and heartbreaking classics of American working-class fiction. It's a book about many things...Also, it's about rats. Lots and lots of rats. Jesus Mary and Joseph, all the rats.

Ian S. Maloney’s South Brooklyn Exterminating is a time capsule, a Whitmanian ode to writing and old Brooklyn, all the way down to how to properly pronounce the Kosciuszko Bridge. It is also a love letter to its protagonist Jonah’s larger-than-life father, Jimmy Bugs Fennell, a character as compelling as he is unpredictable, an artist of extermination. In a fascinating move, South Brooklyn Exterminating interweaves Jonah’s early efforts to become a writer with his adventures in pest control, culminating in his decision to write about being an exterminator’s son for a college process essay, his dad helping him find the thread. Maloney deftly explores the parallels between squirrel trapping and termite work and writing to remind us that penning an essay is also a way of working with one’s hands, and extermination, too, an act of shrewd intellect—a tough calculus of death, taught by the incomparable Jimmy, a veritable professor of battling rats and finding roaches in teapots.
- Caroline Hagood, author of Weird Girls
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Event Venue

Asbury Book Cooperative, 644A Cookman Avenue, Asbury Park, United States