About this Event
Flat Earth | An Evening with Anika Jade Levy & Caroline Calloway
Join us Sat, Nov 29 at 6pm (Coral Gables) for Anika Jade Levy in conversation with Caroline Calloway about Levy’s debut novel Flat Earth—a razor-smart portrait of ambition, female friendship, and the surreal churn of internet culture and the NYC art scene. Conversation + Q&A + signing.
🎟 Free & open to the public—RSVP recommended.
ABOUT THE BOOK:
Avery is a grad student in New York working on a collection of cultural reports and flailing financially and emotionally. She dates older men for money, and others for the oblivion their egos offer. In an act of desperation, Avery takes a job at a right-wing dating app. The "white-paper" she is tasked to write for the startup eventually merges with her dissertation, resulting in a metafictional text that reveals itself over the course of the novel. Meanwhile, her best friend, Frances, an effortlessly chic emerging filmmaker from a wealthy Southern family, drops out of grad school, gets married, and somehow still manages to finish her first feature documentary.
Frances's triumphant return to New York as the toast of the art world sends Avery into a final tailspin, pushing her to make a series of devastating decisions. In this generational portrait, attention spans are at an all-time low and dopamine tolerance is at an all-time high. Flat Earth is a story of coming of age in America, a novel about commodification, conspiracy theories, mimetic desire, and the difficulties of female friendship that’s as sharp and sardonic as it is heartbreaking.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Anika Jade Levy is a writer from Colorado. She is a founding editor of Forever Magazine and taught in the Writing program at Pratt Institute. She is a contributor at Playboy and her reporting and criticism has appeared in GQ, Flaunt, Interview Magazine, Nylon, Kismet and elsewhere. Flat Earth is her debut.
ABOUT THE MODERATOR:
Caroline Calloway is the author of Scammer.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Books & Books, 265 Aragon Avenue, Coral Gables, United States
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