Daniel Pope with Theo Henderson — 'Go Help Yourself'

Third Place Books welcomes writer Daniel Pope to our Ravenna store for a conversation about his debut novel : a gimlet-eyed but open-hearted sendup of the booming self-improvement industry featuring a dissolute Seattle twenty-something bedeviled by his guru mother, his star-crossed ex-girlfriend, and a M**der of vengeful crows. Daniel is joined in conversation by Theo Henderson, bibliophile from birth and the assistant manager at our Ravenna neighborhood store.

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Meet Corbin Moore, a twenty-something lapsed writer whose job at a struggling, off-brand spiritualist bookshop in Seattle meshes well with his regimen of smoking cannabis, binge eating, and doom-watching the news. That rut is interrupted by the return of his overbearing mother, Geraldine, a famous self-help guru who's looking for a guinea pig. Add in the daily deluge of Corbin's deep-seated insecurities and body dysmorphia, the prospect of reunion with still beloved ex-girlfriend Beth, and nonstop harassment by a M**der of near-murderous crows, and you get a person most in need of help--but from whom, and how?
Sharply funny and surprisingly tender, Daniel Pope's debut asks the question: What if we're not broken in all the ways the prophets of American self-help say we are? This book is for all the people self-improvement leaves behind.

Daniel Pope is a writer and musician from Seattle. He is the author of Go Help Yourself (forthcoming 2026), the winner of the University of New Orleans Press Publishing Lab Prize. His work has appeared in Narrative Magazine, Bellevue Literary Review, Gulf Coast Journal, and elsewhere. He currently lives in the UK, where he is a doctoral candidate at the University of Manchester's Centre for New Writing.

Founded in 1998 in Lake Forest Park, Washington, Third Place Books is dedicated to the creation of a community around books and the ideas inside them. With locations in Lake Forest Park and Seattle's Ravenna and Seward Park neighborhoods, Third Place Books is proud to serve the entire Seattle metro area. Learn more about their event series at thirdplacebooks.com/events.

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Third Place Books Ravenna, 6504 20th Avenue Northeast, Seattle, United States

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