Name: MARK MAYER: ABOUT ABOVE AROUND
Start: 2025-12-01T18:00:00-06:00
Location: 387 Perkins Ext, Memphis, TN, United States, Tennessee 38117

Join us as we welcome MARK MAYER on MONDAY, DECEMBER 1 at 6:00 PM to celebrate the release of his new book ABOUT ABOVE AROUND: 50 PREPOSITIONS.

ABOUT THE BOOK:
In About, Above, Around, fifty prepositions reveal the subtle syntax of our inner lives, offering a new yet ancient vocabulary for charting how feeling moves within and between and around us.
" About, Above, Around is thrillingly ambitious and deliciously readable, a remarkable vortex of place and mind and spirit illuminating how our lives are shaped, and how we're held within them. Mayer has given us one of the most dexterous, impressive books I've read in ages."
-- Kaveh Akbar, contest judge and author of Martyr
Review Quotes:
"In About, Above, Around, grammar becomes a playground, a wound, a source of discovery and surreality and agony and magic. This book is very weird and very, very special."
-- Carmen Maria Machado, author of In the Dream House

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Mark Mayer is the author of About, Above, Around: 50 Prepositions, winner of the George Garrett Fiction Prize. Kaveh Akbar calls the book “thrillingly ambitious and deliciously readable, a remarkable vortex of place and mind and spirit illuminating how our lives are shaped, and how we’re held within them… one of the most dexterous, impressive books I’ve read in ages.” Carmen Maria Machado writes, “In About, Above, Around, grammar becomes a playground, a wound, a source of discovery and surreality and agony and magic. This book is very weird and very, very special.”
Mayer’s debut collection, Aerialists (Bloomsbury, 2019), won the Michener-Copernicus Prize and was shortlisted for the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing. His writing has appeared in American Short Fiction, The Kenyon Review, Guernica, The Iowa Review, Best American Mystery Stories, and The New York Times. After five years teaching in the MFA program at the University of Memphis, he is now a professor of fiction at Skidmore College.