Jeremy Atherton Lin + Henry Hicks IV: Deep House

Moderating this discussion is writer, organizer, and historian Henry Hicks IV. This event will be hosted in the Strand Book Store's 3rd floor Rare Book Room at 828 Broadway on 12th Street.

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ONE OF THE YEAR'S BEST BOOKS: THE NEW YORKER • NPR • ELECTRIC LIT • TIME OUT • PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

PROSE Award Winner

Lambda Literary Award Finalist

“A fabulously riveting hybrid memoir and queer history lesson.” —New York Times

It’s 1996, and Jeremy has met the boy of his dreams—a mumbly, starry-eyed Brit—just as, amid a media frenzy, US Congress prepares the Defense of Marriage Act, denying same-sex couples access to immigration. Finding no other way to stay together, they shack up illicitly among unlikely allies in a “city of refuge.”

With an inimitable blend of tenderness and wicked humor, Deep House moves through the couple’s string of rented apartments while unlocking doors to a lineage of outlaw lovers who have come before—smuggling a foreign partner across borders or going public to stand up for the right to get down in the privacy of their own homes.
What emerges is an unexpected romantic comedy haunted by centuries of gay ghosts. Deep House stands at the intersection of the battle for marriage equality and the experience of undocumented migration—atonce a historical kaleidoscope and the innermost tale of two boyfriends who made a home in the shadows of a turbulent civil rights battle.

Jeremy Atherton Lin is the author of the bestseller Deep House and the National Book Critics Circle Award winner Gay Bar. His essays appear in numerous places including The Paris Review, Granta, Times Literary Supplement, and The Yale Review, from which he was anthologized in The Best American Magazine Writing. His sound programs have been broadcast on NTS Radio.

Henry Hicks IV (he/him) is an American writer, organizer, and historian with words in The Guardian, Teen Vogue, and The Nation, among others. His work has been supported by Lambda Literary, Tin House, Martha’s Vineyard Institute for Creative Writing, and more. He is a current MPhil student in the faculty of history at the University of Oxford.

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Strand Book Store, 828 Broadway, New York, United States

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