Authors on Tap: Sara Levine and Michael Zapata

Wed May 31 2023 at 07:00 pm to 08:00 pm

Exile in Bookville | Chicago

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Authors on Tap:  Sara Levine and Michael Zapata
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Authors on Tap: Sara Levine and Michael Zapata
About this Event

Please join us in store on Wednesday, May 31st at 7:00pm to celebrate Sara Levine’s cult classic novel Treasure Island!!! and the 140th anniversary of Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic novel Treasure Island. Sara will be in a wide-ranging conversation about pirates, the legacy of Stevenson’s work, the comic novel, and more with Exile MVP Michael Zapata! 

 

About Treasure Island!!!:

A young slacker decides to live her life according to Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic adventure: “A rollicking tale, shameless, funny and intelligent” (The New York Times).


When a college graduate with a history of hapless jobs (ice cream scooper, gift wrapper, laziest ever part-time clerk at The Pet Library) reads Robert Louis Stevenson’s novel Treasure Island, she is dumbstruck by the timid design of her life. When had she ever dreamed a scheme? When had she ever done a foolish, overbold act? When had she ever, like Jim Hawkins, broken from her friends, raced for the beach, stolen a boat, killed a man, and eliminated an obstacle that stood in the way of her getting a hunk of gold?


Convinced that Stevenson’s book is cosmically intended for her, she redesigns her life according to its Core Values: boldness, resolution, independence, and horn-blowing. Accompanied by her mother, her sister, and a hostile Amazon parrot that refuses to follow the script, our heroine embarks on a domestic adventure more frightening than anything she’d originally planned. Treasure Island!!! is the story of a ferocious obsession, told by an original voice―“insane, hilarious, and irreverent” (Alice Sebold)


About the authors: 

Sara Levine is the author of the novel TREASURE ISLAND!!! and the story collection SHORT DARK ORACLES. She teaches at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago.


Michael Zapata is a founding editor of MAKE Literary Magazine and the author of the novel The Lost Book of Adana Moreau, winner of the 2020 Chicago Review of Books Award for Fiction, finalist for the 2020 Heartland Booksellers Award in Fiction, and a Best Book of the Year for NPR, the A.V. Club, Los Angeles Public Library, and BookPage, among others. He is on the faculty of StoryStudio Chicago and the MFA faculty of Northwestern University. As a public-school educator, he taught literature and writing in high schools servicing drop out students. He currently lives in Chicago with his family.


About the event:

This in person event is free and registration is required.  Please click on the link below to register for free.  Sara and Michael will be happy to sign/personalize copies of their books after the event.  Can't make it to the event?  We will have signed/personalized copies available in store and online and ship nationally. 


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Event Venue & Nearby Stays

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

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