$15
Admission
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Tuesday, 6:00 pm EDT April 23, 2024
The Center for Fiction
Let’s be alone together with those books we just can’t put down. It’s the introvert’s delight! Get cozy with a hot coffee or a cool cocktail for a quiet reading party from 6pm to 7:15pm in our auditorium. Afterward, you’re invited to engage in some not-so-small talk about big stories with your fellow readers. We will help break the ice if you stay, so worry not, our socially awkward friends. We see you.
This BYOBook will be hosted by writer Amanda Stern (Little Panic: Dispatches from an Anxious Life).
Space is limited, so sign up now! Don’t have a book you love yet? Consult our booksellers or librarians for your next great read before we begin.
Featuring
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Amanda Stern
Amanda Stern
Amanda Stern is the author of 13 books–The Long Haul (a novel), Little Panic: Dispatches from an Anxious Life (a memoir), and 11 books for kids written under pseudonyms, including You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah, which Adam Sandler turned into a Netflix movie. She writes the psychology and mental health newsletter “How to Live”, which goes out to 18K subscribers. She lives in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, and is working on a novel, a book of non-fiction, a play, and a collection of short stories.
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