WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 7pm – FICTION
DYLAN LANDIS and JOANNA SMITH RAKOFF
Dylan Landis author of Normal People Don’t Live Like This ($15.00 Persea Books)
“Delicious writing…Evocative, lyrical prose, and vivid imagery coupled with a subtle fictional approach, mysterious references, and ambiguities. Buy this for your literary fiction readers and short story fans – they’ll appreciate it”. – BOOKLIST, review by Ellen Loughran
“In this bracing debut, Dylan Landis guides us into the harsh, secretive
world of girls, where the mysteries of power and sexuality baldly govern, and adults and teenagers occasionally intersect across the barbed wire of a mutually earned mistrust.” – Janet Fitch, author of White Oleander and Paint it Black
“Dylan Landis leaves me breathless with admiration. Her haunting, luminous characters hold secrets we can’t help but recognize as our own, and we’re privy to their most intimate, complicated moments. Beautiful and unrelenting, Normal People Don’t Live Like This had me nodding and sighing and thinking, ‘Oh, but we do, we do.’ “- Lisa Glatt, author of A Girl Becomes a Comma Like That and The Apple’s Bruise
Joanna Smith Rakoff author of A Fortunate Age ($26.00 Scribner)
was a New York Times Editors’ Pick, a winner of the Elle Readers’ Prize, and a selection of Barnes and Noble’s First look Book Club. Like the characters in that novel, she attended Oberlin College, and she holds degrees from University College, London, and Columbia University. She’s written for the New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, Vogue, O: The Oprah Magazine, and numerous other publications. She lives in New York with her husband, son, and daughter.
