About this Event
Join us for our Halloween celebration at the 53rd St Library! On Saturday, October 31st, we'll be hosting author Kasey Lansdale, to commemorate the release of her debut, crime thriller . She'll be in discussion with award-winning author Alex Segura. Festivities will include readings, author Q&A, raffle giveaways, and more!
To RSVP, please use the registration link above. We hope to see you there!
Kasey's Bio: Writer, editor, musician, and bestselling audiobook narrator and author Kasey Lansdale has been creeping around the fiction world since birth. Her mostly horror backlist includes short stories and anthologies from HarperCollins, Titan Books, and more, and her fiction has been adapted for TV and comics. This Halloween, she's bringing her debut thriller, First Chance (Blackstone Publishing), to NYPL. No tricks, just treats!
Alex's Bio: Alex Segura is the bestselling and award-winning author of Secret Identity, winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Mystery/Thriller, a New York Times Editor’s Choice and an NPR Best Mystery of the Year. His most recent publications include Daredevil: Enemy of My Enemy, the second novel in the new Marvel Crime series, as well as Daredevil: The Illustrated History, and The Forgotten Five (with Sara Century), a creator-owned comic releasing on Patreon. He’s also the author of the acclaimed Pete Fernandez series, as well as the Star Wars novel, Poe Dameron: Free Fall, and the YA Spider-Verse adventure, Araña/Spider-Man 2099: Dark Tomorrow. In 2024, he published a sci-fi/espionage novel, Dark Space, co-written with Rob Hart; the graphic novel The Legendary Lynx, illustrated by Sandy Jarrell; Encanto: Nightmares and Sueños; and Alter Ego, a standalone sequel to Secret Identity. Alter Ego was an instant USA Today bestseller, featured in Cosmpolitan, Parade, The Los Angeles Times, The Hollywood Reporter, and described as “thrilling” by the Wall Street Journal. In addition to his prose writing he has written a number of comics for Marvel and DC, including Star Wars: Battle of Jakku, Spider-Society, and The Question: All Along the Watchtower. With Michael Moreci he is the writer behind the noir re-launch of Dick Tracy.
Event venue & nearby stays
53rd Street Library, 18 West 53rd Street, New York, United States
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