Name: In-Store: Holly Brickley: Deep Cuts w/ Coco Mellors
Start: 2026-03-13T19:00:00-04:00
End: 2026-03-13T20:00:00-04:00
Location: Books Are Magic Montague

$In-Store: Holly Brickley: Deep Cuts w\/ Coco Mellors$

“Warm, nostalgic, totally engrossing. I loved this novel.” —Liz Moore, New York Times bestselling author of The God of the Woods
About this Event

Event guidelines:

Each ticket will include either a copy of the featured book or a $10 Books Are Magic gift card.
Additional copies of the book will be available for purchase at the event.
A signing will follow the talk.
Home address is collected for contact tracing purposes; it will not be used otherwise.
The event will also be livestreamed for free here: https://youtube.com/live/QSNGqwV6qjU
As a reminder: If you are not feeling well, please do not come to the event, even if you have a ticket; email us and we'll work it out.

If you have any questions regarding these guidelines or to request accessibility accommodations, please contact [email protected].

It was the love story of a decade, or it should have been--the indie sleaze, coming-of-age National Bestseller and Today Show "Spring Pick" is now in paperback.

Look, the song whispered to me, that day in my living room. Life can be so big.

It’s a Friday night in a campus bar in Berkeley, fall of 2000, and Percy Marks is pontificating about music again. Hall and Oates is on the jukebox, and Percy—who has no talent for music, just lots of opinions about it—can’t stop herself from overanalyzing the song, indulging what she knows to be her most annoying habit. But something is different tonight. The guy beside her at the bar, fellow student Joe Morrow, is a songwriter. And he could listen to Percy talk all night.

Joe asks Percy for feedback on one of his songs—and the results kick off a partnership that will span years, ignite new passions in them both, and crush their egos again and again. Is their collaboration worth its cost? Or is it holding Percy back from finding her own voice?

Moving from Brooklyn bars to San Francisco dance floors, Deep Cuts examines the nature of talent, obsession, belonging, and above all, our need to be heard.

Holly Brickley studied English at UC Berkeley and received an MFA in fiction from Columbia University. Originally from Hope, British Columbia, she now lives in Portland, Oregon, with her husband and their two daughters. Her debut novel Deep Cuts has been translated into 15 languages and is being developed into a film by A24 Studios.

Coco Mellors grew up in London and New York, where she received her MFA in fiction from New York University. She is the New York Times best-selling author of Cleopatra and Frankenstein and Blue Sisters. Her work has been translated into over twenty languages and is currently being adapted for television. She lives with her husband and son in New York.