The Shrinks Are Away Reading, hosted by Susan Shapiro

P&T Knitwear is pleased to welcome Susan Shapiro for an installment of her reading series, The Shrinks Are Away — words to soothe the savage urban psyche during the season when therapists are away — and to celebrate the paperback release of her newest book, The Forgiveness Tour: an "electric, sad, funny and beautiful" memoir (Cat Marnell, bestselling author of How To M**der Your Life) that wrestles with how to exonerate someone who can’t cough up a measly “my bad” or mumble “mea culpa."

Susan will be joined by acclaimed authors Aquilino Gonell (American Shield), Rodney Leonard (Another Land My Body), Cat Marnell (How to M**der Your Life), Jodi Savage (Death of a Jaybird), Ravi Shankar (Tallying the Hemispheres), and Hyeseung Song (Docile). After the event, Susan will sign copies of .

• This is a ticketed in-store event with limited amphitheater-style seating
• Cost of a $5 general admission ticket can be applied towards your purchase of the featured event book or any product in our café the night of an event.
• We encourage all guests to wear masks.
• The talk will be followed by a book signing. Books signed at P&T Knitwear events must be purchased from P&T Knitwear. If you would like a signed copy and cannot attend the event, we're happy to take your pre-order. We ship most places!

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

, an award-winning writing professor, freelances for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, New York Magazine, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, Newsweek, Salon, Tablet, The Forward, Elle, Marie Claire, Oprah, Wired, and The New Yorker online. She's the national bestselling author/coauthor of 13 books her family hates, including Unhooked, Five Men Who Broke My Heart, Lighting Up, The Bosnia List and The Byline Bible. She and her scriptwriter husband, a New York University professor, live in Greenwich Village, where she teaches her popular "instant gratification takes too long" classes at The New School, NYU, Columbia University, and privately online. Follow her on Twitter and Instagram.

ABOUT THE READERS

is a Dominican immigrant, former U.S Army Soldier, and Iraq War veteran. He’s been a Capitol Hill Police Officer for the past 17 years and was one of four police officers who testified before the House Select Committee investigating the January 6th Insurrection. He’s been recently featured in The New York Times Magazine, The Washington Post, NPR, CBS Mornings, NBC News, Fox-TV, MSNBC, The Daily Beast, The Hill, and Rolling Stone. He is the recipient of the Carnegie Immigrant Award.

is the author of Sweetgum & Lightning (Four Way Books), winner of the NCPA Gold Award and the Human Relations Indie Book Award, finalist for the National Indie Excellence Award and semi-finalist for The Poetry Society of Virginia Poetry Book Award. He holds degrees from The New School, NYU Tisch School of the Arts, and Teachers College Columbia University. An Air Force veteran, he received an MFA from Columbia University. He currently lives in Manhattan.

is a Condé Nast drop-out and former beauty editor at Lucky and xoJane.com. She wrote the “Amphetamine Logic” column for VICE. How to M**der Your Life is her first book.

is a writer, speaker and DEI attorney in New York City. Her essays have appeared in the Huffington Post, Catapult, Kweli Journal, WSQ Journal and the VIDA Review. Jodi facilitates workshops about grief, caregiving, breast cancer, Alzheimer's disease and writing the mother wound. She is a Goldwater Fellow and a current MFA candidate in New York University's creative nonfiction program. The Death of a Jaybird is her first book.

is an award-winning author and editor of more than fifteen books and chapbooks of poetry. He is the founder of Drunken Boat, one of the world’s oldest electronic journals of the arts, and has been featured in the New York Times and on BBC, NPR, and PBS NewsHour. He lives in Providence, Rhode Island with his partner and their dogs, Annie and Rishi.

is a first-generation Korean American writer and painter. She lives in Brooklyn and upstate New York.

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

P&T Knitwear Books & Podcasts, 180 Orchard Street, New York, United States