About this Event
The event will feature a discussion between Christopher Rice, Eric Shaw Quinn, and international bestselling author Jennifer L. Armentrout on the enduring impact of this iconic novel that transformed a genre and the continuing legacy of author Anne Rice.
This event will be hosted on the 6th Floor of The Strand Building located at 826 Broadway on 12th Street.
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ACCESSIBILITY:
Strand Book Store is an ADA compliant venue. The event space is accessible via elevator.
ASL interpretation is available for this event by request only. Please reach out to our events team at [email protected] by Sept. 26 to request.
Please ask a Strand employee upon arrival for directions to accessible seating if preferred.
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The 50th anniversary edition of the spellbinding classic that started it all, from the #1 New York Times bestselling author.
This dazzling special edition features a jacket with foil and embossing, sprayed edges, designed endpapers, a new foreword by Leigh Bardugo, an afterword by Christopher Rice, and never-before-seen bonus pages from Anne Rice's original manuscript.
Here are the confessions of a vampire: a hypnotic, shocking, and chillingly sensual story of Louis de Pointe du Lac's first two hundred years as one of the living dead. We're transported to the night when Louis, disaffected and reluctant heir to a Louisiana plantation, is turned into a vampire by Lestat. Radiant and powerful, Lestat becomes Louis’s companion and urges him to embrace the hungers and feelings of vampirism: the detachment, the hardened will, the "superior" sensual pleasures. As Louis struggles to retain the last residue of human feeling within him, he must commit the ultimate act: to break away from his creator and discover the new world to which he belongs—whatever the cost.
This is a story of danger and flight, of loyalty and treachery, of gaining humanity and losing it, and of the extraordinary power of the senses.
Photo credit: Cathryn Farnsworth
Christopher Rice is the recipient of the Lambda Literary Award and is the Amazon Charts and New York Times bestselling author of A Density of Souls; Bone Music, Blood Echo, and Blood Victory in the Burning Girl series; and Bram Stoker Award finalists The Heavens Rise and The Vines. An executive producer for television, he collaborated with his mother Anne Rice on the novel Ramses the Damned: The Passion of Cleopatra and Ramses The Damned: The Reign of Osiris. Together with his best friend and producing partner, New York Times bestselling novelist Eric Shaw Quinn, Christopher runs the production company Dinner Partners. In 2025, they produced the sellout live event ANNE RICE, AN ALL SAINTS’ DAY CELEBRATION in New Orleans and its accompanying documentary film, ANNE RICE, A LIFE IN STORIES. They also produce the podcast and video network Dinner Partners which can be found at www.DinnerPartners.com. He lives in West Hollywood, California, and writes tales of romance between men under the pseudonym C. Travis Rice. More information about his work can be found at http://www.ChristopherRiceBooks.com.
Photo credit: Adam Robitel
Eric Shaw Quinn is the New York Times bestselling author of SAY UNCLE, a groundbreaking book about gay adoption, and WRITE M**der, the first installment in his comic M**der mystery series inspired by his time as a celebrity ghostwriter. As Quinn Brockton, he wrote two novelizations for the Showtime television series QUEER AS FOLK. Thanks to his bestselling work with a certain celebrity, he earned the title of Amazon’s #1 Chick Lit Author in 2004. His controversial epic novel, THE PRINCE’S PSALM depicts the love story between Jonathan and David as depicted in the Old Testament and was published to controversy and acclaim. He wrote it at the urging of his dear friend, the late novelist Anne Rice. Together with his best friend and producing partner, New York Times bestselling novelist Christopher Rice, Eric runs the production company Dinner Partners. In 2025, they produced the sellout live event ANNE RICE, AN ALL SAINTS’ DAY CELEBRATION in New Orleans and its accompanying documentary film, ANNE RICE, A LIFE IN STORIES. They also produce the podcast and video network Dinner Partners which can be found at www.DinnerPartners.com. His thoughts, musings, short stories and other works can be found at www.EricShawQuinn.com.
#1 New York Times and #1 International Bestselling author Jennifer L. Armentrout lives in Shepherdstown, West Virginia. All the rumors you’ve heard about her state aren’t true. When she’s not hard at work writing. she spends her time reading, watching really bad zombie movies, pretending to write, hanging out with her husband, her Border Jack Apollo, Border Collie Artemis, three llama, seven judgmental alpacas, two rude goats, five fluffy sheep, and one “Kitty” as a stray that she’s forcing her love on. In early 2015, Jennifer was diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa, a group of rare genetic disorders that involve a breakdown and death of cells in the retina, eventually resulting in loss of vision, among other complications. Due to this diagnosis, educating people on the varying degrees of blindness has become a passion of hers, right alongside writing, which she plans to do as long as she can.
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The Strand Building, 826 Broadway, New York, United States
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