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Celebrate IBD with an afternoon of readings from the incredible Melissa Lozada-Oliva, Megan Milks, and Chelsea G. Summers!Event guidelines:
- All attendees are encouraged to wear face masks at all times.
- RSVP is highly encouraged but not required.
- Additional copies of the readers' books will be available for purchase in-store.
- The readings will be followed by a book signing.
- 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].
This Indie Bookstore Day, we're celebrating women's rights AND women's wrongs with Melissa Lozada-Oliva ( Candelaria ), Megan Milks ( Slug and Other Stories ), and Chelsea G. Summers, reading from her brand-new, IBD-exclusive novella, An Excellent Host!
Each author will read for 15 minutes in the Peter Straub Reading Room, and then sign books inside:
12-12:30pm: Melissa Lozada-Oliva
12:45-1:15pm: Megan Milks
1:30-2pm: Chelsea G. Summers
Come for one, come for all! It's a day for reading, dancing, loving, eating (IYKYK), and more!
Melissa Lozada-Oliva is the author of peluda , Dreaming of You , and Candelaria , which was named one of the best books of the year by USA Today and Vogue . She is the cohost of the podcast Say More and runs a substack called READING SUCKS. She received her MFA from NYU in 2020 and lives in Brooklyn.
Megan Milks is the author of Margaret and the Mystery of the Missing Body , a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award in Transgender Fiction, and Slug and Other Stories , both published by Feminist Press in 2021. Their personal history of early online music fandom, Tori Amos Bootleg Webring , was also published in 2021 (Instar Books). With Marisa Crawford, they co-edited the anthology We Are the Baby-Sitters Club: Essays and Artwork from Grown-Up Readers (Chicago Review Press).
Chelsea G. Summers is a former academic and college professor with Ph.D. training in eighteenth-century British literature. A freelance writer, Chelsea's work has appeared in New York Magazine , Vogue , The New Republic , Racked , The Guardian , and other fine publications. She splits her time between New York and Stockholm, Sweden. A Certain Hunger is her first novel.
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122 Montague Street,Brooklyn,11201,US, 122 Montague St, Brooklyn, NY 11201-3442, United States,New York, New York
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