About this Event
Join bestselling authors Samantha Paige Rosen (Living, Together) and Emma Copley Eisenberg (Fat Swim) for a lively conversation about communal living (it’s not just for cults or millennials with a pipe dream!), tales of living in a contradictory world, and collective care on November 2, 7pm.
This event will be held at Char and Stave 21 Rittenhouse Place, Ardmore, Penna. Tickets are strongly encouraged to join; books will be available for purchase and signing at the event.
Samantha Paige Rosen’s writing on identity, culture, and the arts has appeared in the Washington Post, Harper’s Bazaar, ELLE, Slate, Them, Literary Hub, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and elsewhere. She lives outside of Philadelphia, where she is a freelance writer and editor, a writing tutor and coach, and an amateur potter.
Emma Copley Eisenberg is the nationally bestselling author of two books of fiction—Fat Swim and the novel Housemates, nominated for a Lambda Literary Award in Lesbian Fiction and the VCU Cabell First Novelist Prize — and the nonfiction book The Third Rainbow Girl, a New York Times Notable Book and Editor’s Choice. She lives in Philadelphia, where she co-founded Blue Stoop, a community hub for the literary arts, and is a 2026 Pew Foundation fellow.
Living, Together
Communal living isn’t just for cults or millennials with a pipe dream. Amidst the climate crisis, a hostile housing market, and the loneliness epidemic, Living, Together opens a window into how people in the US are thriving through collective care. This book invites us to imagine what new opportunities for connection exist when we push through the walls society has built for us.
Fat Swim
With a brash and stylish voice that implicates and confronts the reader, Emma Copley Eisenberg wades into the contradictions, joys, and violence of a modern world shaped by looking and watching, examining how our hungers can both hijack and crack open our lives.
Tickets are highly encouraged to attend this event. Books will be available for purchase and signing at the event.
Event venue & nearby stays
Char & Stave, 21 Rittenhouse Place, Ardmore, United States
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