About this Event
A book club that isn’t a book club? Correct. FFNY and Housing Works Bookstore's monthly salon for NYC creatives - part conversation, part hang, fully New York. Books, signings, special collab merch, and the city’s cultural heartbeat all in one room. This month's guest is author Hallie Elizabeth Newton, who will discuss her debut novel Agnes Lives! with FFNY founder, Heidi Hartwig.
Set in New York City, 2014, Agnes Lives! follows a fading socialite on the hunt for someone to K*ll her before her next SoulCycle class. Agnes Maurer seeks a willing murderer and wonders what she should wear. Candidates include: an icy magazine editor with a special cutlery set; an eccentric designer from her past; and Agnes's cruel novelist boyfriend. As she Ubers from Upper East Side shopping to Craigslist gun deals, Agnes' desperation becomes an exhibition, a swan song of millennial sexuality as internalized abuse and consummate style, with the knob righty-tightened all the way.
Hallie Elizabeth Newton was born in Mississippi. A recipient of NYU’s Goldwater Fellowship, she won first prize for fiction in Columbia Journal’s 2020 Winter Contest. Agnes Lives! is her debut novel. She lives in New York.
Cafe and Bookstore will be open for purchases.
Happy Hour from 5-8pm: Beer $6 + Wine $8
FFNY
Friends From New York is a cultural platform rooted in New York’s creative community. Through interviews, events, parties, collaborations, and storytelling, FFNY celebrates the people who keep the city’s spirit alive.
Event venue & nearby stays
Housing Works Bookstore Cafe, 126 Crosby Street, New York, United States
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