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Town & Country
Brian Schaefer

Wednesday, January 28th at 7pm

A “big-hearted and true” (Andrew Sean Greer, Pulitzer Prize winner) debut novel set in a small rural town amid a congressional race when life-changing secrets are unearthed by the candidates, their families, and a clique of gay second homeowners.

Spanning six months from Memorial Day to Election Day, Town & Country paints a kaleidoscopic portrait of a community in flux. For readers of Fredrick Backman and Jen Beagin, this “powerful and extremely well-written book” (Colum McCann, National Book Award winner) asks the essential and timeless What makes a home, and what do we owe our neighbors?

Brian Schaefer contributes regularly to The New York Times and has written for The NewYorker, New York magazine, and more. He received his master’s degree in creative writing from BarIlan University in Tel Aviv, where he also worked as a writer and editor forHaaretz. He and his husband live in New York City and the Hudson Valley.Town & Country is his first book.

Sidework
Sasha Hom
with Miah Jeffra and Stephanie Sherman

​Thursday, January 29th at 7pm

Sasha Hom’s Sidework is a lyric, page-turning novella about a homeless Korean adoptee and mother of four. During her busy Sunday shift waiting tables, her customers—rock stars, locals, and the Grim Reaper himself—bring her face to face with larger issues of motherhood, suicide, environmental degradation, death, and belonging.

In this thought-provoking and often humorous debut from award-winning author Sasha Hom, herself a Korean adoptee and mother of four, the protagonist loses her home when the intentional community/commune where she and her family used to live—off-grid, in a canvas tent on three hundred acres—is sold. Sidework takes place during a Sunday breakfast shift as the homeless hero waits tables at a popular ‘Cash Only’ diner tucked in the Redwoods, frequented by growers, rock stars, Dreamers, tycoons, and tourists alike. But with each order she takes, each interaction serves only to bring her closer to her ghosts. Unnamed and unknown, from far-off continents, they ask her what it means to be a good mother.

Intricately woven, lyric, and atmospherically layered, Hom’s debut marries the mystic and mythic with the mundane while taking on issues of immigration, colonization, climate change, homophobia, motherhood, and adoption.

Poetry & Place
with M.J. “Joe” Arcangelini, Scott Bird, Trebor Healey & Arthur Tress

​Thursday, January 22nd at 7pm​

M.J. “Joe” Arcangelini has resided in Northern California since 1979. He has published extensively in magazines, online venues and anthologies. Twice nominated for a Pushcart Prize, he has published 8 poetry collections, including With Fingers At The Tips Of My Words (2002) Beautiful Dreamer Press; Room Enough (2016) NightBallet Press; Waiting for the Wind to Rise (2018) NightBallet Press; What the Night Keeps (2019) Stubborn Mule Press; A Quiet Ghost (2020) Luchador Press; Pawning My Sins (2022) Luchador Press; Fierce Kisses (2024) Rebels & Squares Press; & Hooking Up (2025) Pure Sleaze Press.
 
Scott Bird is a poet, painter and musician in San Francisco. His first book of poems Twenty Two Madrigals was published by Apocrypha press in 2024, and his poetry book Paradoxes will be published in 2026 by Lithic Press. Along with Jack Nancy, he is the curator of the Coit Tower Poetry Club and magazine.
 
Editor and author of ten books of fiction, essays and poetry, Trebor Healey has published a previous book of poems, Sweet Son of Pan, and lives in Mexico City. He wrote poetry for Arthur Tress’ photos of Mexico City in Navel of the Moon/Ombligo de la Luna.
 
​Arthur Tress is a renowned American photographer, known as a trailblazer of staged surrealism and magic realism in photography. He has produced dozens of books (his latest being Navel of the Moon/Ombligo de la Luna with Trebor Healey). Tress was recently the subject of a retrospective at the Getty Museum.
​ https://arthurtress.com/biography/

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Please note: we concentrate on LGBTQ+ titles, but do make exceptions. We do not do events for self-help books, academic titles or business books. All events must be scheduled at least 6 weeks in advance and (since we do not have a public restroom) readings should last no longer than 90 minutes. We truly wish we could host everyone who wants to hold an event here. Alas, there are simply too many wonderful authors with wonderful books for us to accommodate all the requests we receive. Thanks for understanding!
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