Authors on Tap: Robin McLean and Kyle Beachy

Sat Nov 05 2022 at 07:00 pm to 08:00 pm

Exile in Bookville | Chicago

Exile in Bookville
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Authors on Tap: Robin McLean and Kyle Beachy
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Authors on Tap: Robin McLean and Kyle Beachy
About this Event

Please join us on Saturday, November 5th at 7:00pm central to help celebrate Robin McLean's new short story collection, Get 'em Young, Treat 'em Tough, Tell 'em Nothing.  Robin will be in conversation with Kyle Beachy! 

About the book:

Dark, profane, and hilarious, yet ultimately humane, these ten stories are the latest and best of Robin McLean's reports from the eternal battlefront that is the United States.

Ranging across the continent, from Alaska to Missouri, from the flatlands to the mountains, each tale is a snapshot of the political, racial, and sexual undercurrents roiling contemporary life, and each finds a way into the nerves and blood that pulse beneath the question of how to live a decent life. 

Here you'll find stolen children living life to the fullest on the run and on the road, soldiers guarding empty frontiers, and rugged individualists brought low by an uncaring nature. You'll find prehistoric beasts rubbing talons with hustlers as well as death machines lurking beneath the bucolic countryside. Here you'll find hatred, friendship, and pitch-black humor all seething in the same stew.

Get 'em Young, Treat 'em Tough, Tell 'em Nothing marries the sardonic moral and political explorations of a Flannery O'Connor to the surreal, scuzzy wit of a Denis Johnson. It is a brazen State of the Union for a nation on the edge.

About the authors:

Robin McLean worked as a lawyer and then a potter in the woods of Alaska before turning to writing. Her debut novel Pity the Beast was chosen in multiple Best Books of 2021 lists in outlets such as the Guardian, Wall Street Journal and The White Review, while the American Booksellers Association chose it as an Indie Next pick. She teaches writing across the U.S. and internationally, and currently lives in the high desert West.

Kyle Beachy is the author of The Slide, a novel, and a hybrid memoir, The Most Fun Thing, one of NPR’s Best Books of 2021. He’s currently the Interim Director of the MFA Writing Program at Roosevelt University. His work has appeared in the Paris Review, Thrasher Magazine, and elsewhere.

About the event:

This is a free, in store event.  Registration is required through the link below. 

You can purchase their books through the respective links or in store and Robin and Kyle are happy to sign or personalize copies! If you can't make it to the event, signed copies will be available and we ship nationally! 

Please note the following COVID protocols for those attending IN PERSON: 

Attendees must present a physical copy or a photo of their COVID-19 vaccine card along with a valid photo ID (state, government, or school ID); or

Provide a time-stamped printout, photo, or email of a negative PCR test taken within 48 hours of the event or a negative Rapid Antigen Test taken within 36 hours of the event, along with a valid photo ID (state, government, or school ID).

All persons must wear a mask for the duration of their time in the Fine Arts Building, regardless of vaccination status in accordance with our current COVID policies

Please email us at [email protected] or phone us at (312)-753-3154 if you have any questions or concerns. 


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Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Exile in Bookville, 410 South Michigan Avenue, Chicago, United States

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