About this Event
As the child of a Hooter's waitress and an ex-Pro-Wrestler, Margo's always known she'd have to make it on her own. When she finds herself pregnant by her college professor - who is very keen not to be involved – she realizes she will need cash fast.
At twenty, alone with a baby, what Margo lacks in options she makes up for in ingenuity, and soon she has a plan: she'll start an OnlyFans as an experiment, producing content and writing storylines unlike anything else out there. Help arrives in the form of her live-action role-playing flatmate Suzie, and her father, Jinx – a recovering addict and veteran of the wrestling world, who has experience of making an audience fall in love.
Before she knows it, Margo is an online phenomenon. Could this be the answer to all of her problems, or does internet fame come with too high a price?
Rufi Thorpe received her MFA from the University of Virginia. She is the author of three previous novels, has been long listed for the International Dylan Thomas Prize, and shortlisted for the Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize and the PEN/Faulkner award. She has written for the New York Times, Huffington Post, LitHub, McSweeney’s, Poets & Writers, MORE Magazine, Vela and Medium. She currently teaches for The Book Incubator, and lives in California with her husband and two sons.
Joining us for the evening we have the author, screenwriter, essayist, and occasional comedian, Monica Heisey. She began her writing career in media, contributing to publications likeTheGuardian, The New Yorker, The New York Times, and Playboy. Her first story collection, ‘I Can't Believe It's Not Better’ was published in 2015, and was a Globe & Mail, National Post, and CBC “Best Book of the Year.” Her debut novel, ‘Really Good, Actually’, also received high acclaim and was Waterstones’ Book of the Month. She has also worked on many successful television projects, including ‘Schitt's Creek’ (Netflix/CBC), ‘Workin ‘ Moms’ (Netflix/CBC),’Gary and His Demons’ (Amazon, VRV),’The Cleaner’ (BBC), and ‘Everything I Know About Love’ (BBC).
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Waterstones, 19-21 Tottenham Court Road, London, United Kingdom
GBP 7.00 to GBP 20.00
