Name: Authors on Tap: Adam Levin
Start: 2024-05-16T19:00:00-05:00
End: 2024-05-16T20:00:00-05:00
Location: Exile in Bookville

Authors on Tap: Adam Levin
About this Event

Please join us on in person on Thursday, May 16th at 7:00pm central for an evening celebrating Adam Levin and the 13th Anniversary Bar Mitzvah reissue of his masterpiece, The Instructions. The evening will consist of a short reading, Q & A, followed by a signing with Adam and a celebratory party after!
About The Instructions: 13th Anniversary Bar Mitzvah Edition:
Beginning with a chance encounter with the beautiful Eliza June Watermark and ending, four days and 900 pages later, with the Events of November 17, this is the story of Gurion Maccabee, age ten: a lover, a fighter, a scholar, and a truly spectacular talker. Ejected from three Jewish day schools for acts of violence and messianic tendencies, Gurion ends up in the Cage, a special lockdown program for the most hopeless cases of Aptakisic Junior High. Separated from his scholarly followers, Gurion becomes a leader of a very different sort, with righteous aims building to a revolution of troubling intensity. The Instructions is an absolutely singular work of fiction by an important new talent. Adam Levin has shaped a world driven equally by moral fervor and slapstick comedy--a novel that is muscular and verbose, troubling and empathetic, monumental, breakneck, romantic, and unforgettable. Thirteen years after its original publication, McSweeney's is releasing this special, two paperback edition of Levin's beloved novel which continues to find new readers each year.
About Adam Levin:
Adam Levin is the author of the novels , , and , as well as the story collection, . His writing has appeared in numerous publications, including The New Yorker, McSweeney’s, and Playboy. He has been a New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award winner, a recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, and a National Jewish Book Award finalist. He lives in Chicago.
About this event:
This in person event is free and open to the public. Registration is required. Please click on the link below to register for free! Adam will be happy to sign/personalize copies of his books after the event! Can't make it to the event? Signed copies will be available in store and online after the event!