Dan Kois in conversation with Lori Rader Day "Hampton Heights"

Dan Kois will be in store at The Book Cellar in conversation with Lori Rader-Day to celebrate the release of his new novel Hampton Heights! 

ABOUT THE BOOK:

Sigmone, who is bussed to a white school, is stuck with Joel, a white kid who idolizes Black culture. Mark, who is wrestling with his sexuality, joins his secret crush, Ryan—who has a crush of his own. Nishu and Al are outsiders; one is a second-generation immigrant, the other a poor kid in a rich school. Over the course of this night, the three pairs will encounter werewolves, witches with a centuries-old story to tell, and an ancient monster who feeds on memories—and triumph over them. Meanwhile, Kevin is having an adventure of his own, seducing a beautiful woman in the neighborhood’s tavern . . . but who is actually in control?

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Dan Kois is a writer, editor, and podcaster at Slate, where his work has been nominated for two National Magazine Awards and two Writers Guild Awards. He’s the author of the novel Vintage Contemporaries; How to Be a Family, a memoir; The World Only Spins Forward (with Isaac Butler), which was a 2019 Stonewall Honor Book; and Facing Future, a book of music criticism and biography. He is a frequent guest and host of Slate’s Culture Gabfest podcast, was a founding host of Slate’s Mom and Dad Are Fighting podcast, and hosts The Martin Chronicles, a podcast about Martin Amis. Dan grew up in Milwaukee, where his first job was as a paperboy delivering the Milwaukee Sentinel newspaper. He now lives with his family in Virginia.

ABOUT THE CONVERSATION PARTNER: 

Lori Rader-Day is the Edgar® Award-nominated and Agatha, Anthony, and Mary Higgins Clark award-winning author of The Death of Us, Death at Greenway, The Lucky One, Under a Dark Sky, The Day I Died, Little Pretty Things, and The Black Hour. She lives in Chicago, where she is co-chair of the mystery readers’ festival Midwest Mystery Conference and served as 2019-2020 national president of Sisters in Crime. She teaches creative writing for Northwestern University’s School of Professional Studies.

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