Name: Authors on Tap: Catherine Lacey, Lindsay Hunter, Sara Levine, Maryse Meijer
Start: 2025-10-03T19:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-10-03T20:00:00-05:00
Location: Exile in Bookville

Authors on Tap: Catherine Lacey, Lindsay Hunter, Sara Levine, Maryse Meijer

Authors on Tap: Catherine Lacey with Lindsay Hunter, Sara Levine, and Maryse Meijer
About this Event

Please join us in person on Friday, October 3rd to help celebrate Catherine Lacey's newest book, The Möbius Book. Catherine will be in conversation with Lindsay Hunter, Sara Levine, and Maryse Meijer!

About The Möbius Book:

Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2025 by The New York Times, Vulture, the Los Angeles Times, the Boston Globe, A.V. Club, Chicago Review of Books, OurCulture, and LitHub!

Adrift after a sudden breakup and its ensuing depression, the novelist Catherine Lacey began cataloguing the wreckage of her life and the beauty of her friendships, a practice that eventually propagated fiction both entirely imagined and strangely true. Betrayed by the mercurial partner she had trusted with a shared mortgage and suddenly catapulted into the unknown, Lacey’s appetite vanished, a visceral reminder of the teenage emaciation that came when she stopped believing in God. Through relationships, travel, reading, and memories of her religious fanaticism, Lacey charts the contours of faith’s absence and reemergence. She and her characters recall gnostic experiences with animals, close encounters with male anger, grief-driven lust, and the redemptive power of platonic love and of narrative itself. The result is a book of uncommon vulnerability and wisdom, and heartbreaking—and heart-mending—exploration of endings and beginnings.

A hybrid work with no beginning or ending, readable from either side, The Möbius Book troubles the line between memory and fiction with an openhearted defense of faith’s power, and inherent danger.

About the authors:

Catherine Lacey's most recent work, The Möbius Book, is half pure fiction and half pure memory. She is also the author of four novels: Biography of X, Pew, The Answers, Nobody Is Ever Missing, and a short story collection, Certain American States.

Her honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Whiting Award, a Cullman fellowship, an O. Henry, the Young Lions Fiction Award, the Brooklyn Public Library Book Prize, and an award from Lambda for Lesbian Fiction.

A second short story collection, My Stalkers, will appear in 2027. She lives in México with her husband, Daniel Saldaña París.

Lindsay Hunter is the author of two story collections and three novels. Her latest novel, Hot Springs Drive, won the Chicago Review of Books Fiction Award and was named a top thriller of 2023 by the Washington Post. She lives in Chicago with her family.

Sara Levine is the author of the novel TREASURE ISLAND!!! and the story collection SHORT DARK ORACLES. Her novel THE HITCH will be published by Roxane Gay Books (January, 2026).

Maryse Meijer is the author of Heartbreaker, Rag, Northwood, and her most recent, The Seventh Mansion. She lives in Chicago.

About this event:

This is a free, in person event and registration is required. Please click on the registration link below to join for free. Catherine, Lindsay, Sara, and Maryse will be happy to sign copies of their books after the event! Can't make it to the event? Signed copies will be available in store and online and we ship nationally!