I Blame Myself But Also You: An Evening with Spencer Fleury

A woman seeks out the meaning of an inscrutable note given to her by a man who used her car as an instrument of his own suicide.
Two teenage boys discover that the devil has opened a record store in their seedy Florida suburb.
A man's obsession with living a minimalist life goes nowhere as the possessions he discards all seem to find their way back to him.
The eleven stories in I Blame Myself But Also You (and other stories) are a little absurd, a little speculative, and a little dark, and author Spencer Fleury joins us at the bookstore with fellow local author and journalist Stephanie Hayes!
In these beautifly crafted stories, Fleury repeatedly digs into a handful of universal themes: The search for that one existential totem we expect to fix everything, but that never quite does; the strange, unnerving liminal space between childhood and not-quite-adulthood; the endless struggle to find our place in the world, and the nagging fear that maybe we never will.

Spencer Fleury has worked as a sailor, copywriter, economics professor and record store clerk, among other disreputable professions. He was born in the Detroit suburbs, spent most of his life in Florida, and now lives in San Francisco. His first novel, How I’m Spending My Afterlife, was published by Woodhall Press in September 2021.
Stephanie Hayes is an author and journalist who writes a nationally syndicated column for the Tampa Bay Times, as well as a weekly newsletter, Stephinitely. She is the author of Be Serious, a collection of her syndicated essays, and Obitchuary, a novel. Her writing has appeared in Chicago Quarterly Review, Boudin, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency and is forthcoming in Saw Palm. Stephanie has received recognition from the National Headliner Awards, Florida Society of News Editors, Green Eyeshade and the Society for Features Journalism, among others. She's a University of South Florida graduate and lives in Dunedin, Florida.

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Tombolo Books, 2153 1st Avenue South, St. Petersburg, United States