Katie Kitamura celebrates Audition on May 21st at 6pm

Thu May 21 2026 at 06:00 pm to 07:30 pm UTC-04:00

Barnes & Noble - Philadelphia | Philadelphia

Barnes & Noble - Philadelphia
Publisher/HostBarnes & Noble - Philadelphia
Katie Kitamura celebrates Audition on May 21st at 6pm
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Barnes & Noble Philly welcomes Katie Kitamura to discuss Audition on Thursday, May 21st at 6pm!
About this Event

Join and Barnes & Noble Philadelphia on Thursday, May 21st at 6pm at Barnes & Noble Philadelphia (1708 Chestnut Street) for a discussion of an exhilarating, destabilizing Möbius strip of a novel that asks whether we ever really know the people we love.

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ABOUT

Katie Kitamura is the author of five novels, most recently Audition and Intimacies, which was named one of the New York Times 10 Best Books of 2021, longlisted for the National Book Award and the PEN/Faulkner Award, and a finalist for a Joyce Carol Oates Prize. She is a recipient of the Rome Prize in Literature, fellowships from the Cullman Center and the Lannan Foundation, and many other honors. Her work has been translated into twenty-one languages. She teaches in the creative writing program at New York University.

ABOUT

One woman, the performance of a lifetime. Or two. An exhilarating, destabilizing Möbius strip of a novel that asks whether we ever really know the people we love.
Two people meet for lunch in a Manhattan restaurant. She’s an accomplished actress in rehearsals for an upcoming premiere. He’s attractive, troubling, young—young enough to be her son. Who is he to her, and who is she to him? In this compulsively readable, brilliantly constructed novel, two competing narratives unspool, rewriting our understanding of the roles we play every day – partner, parent, creator, muse – and the truths every performance masks, especially from those who think they know us most intimately.
Taut and hypnotic, Audition is Katie Kitamura at her virtuosic best.

NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY BARACK OBAMA, THE WASHINGTON POST, THE NEW YORKER, NPR, THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY, VOGUE, TIME MAGAZINE, MARIE CLAIRE, THE LOS ANGELES TIMES, THE GUARDIAN AND MORE!
FINALIST FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE, THE JOYCE CAROL OATES PRIZE, THE GOTHAM BOOK PRIZE, AND THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR FICTION
LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE AND THE CAROL SHIELDS PRIZE FOR FICTION
INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER
“A tightly wound family drama that reads like a psychological thriller."—NPR
“Bold, stark, genre-bending, Audition will haunt your dreams.”—The Boston Globe

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Barnes & Noble - Philadelphia, 1708 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, United States

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