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Teen Author Reading Night
Hosted by David Levithan, four young adult authors and two middle grade authors will read from their current books. Authors include Emmy Laybourne (Berserker), Billy Merrell, (Vanilla), Sam Miller (The Art of Starving), Tommy Wallach (Strange Fire), and Zack Loran Clark and Nick Eliopulos (The Adventurers Guild).
Find out more »Vanilla Book Party
Please join us for the launch of Vanilla, the YA fiction debut of poet Billy Merrell. A novel-in-poems, Vanilla tells the story of two boys who have been in love for a long time, but who must also face the truth that they want different things from life and from each other. A book-signing and reception will follow the event. Advance Praise for Vanilla: “A deeply personal and poetic dissection of young love and identity. Merrell has crafted a total knockout.”…
Find out more »Young, Queer, and Lit!
Author and editor David Levithan will read at the Strand Bookstore, alongside emerging queer authors Billy Merrell, Caleb Zane Huett, Zack Loran Clark and Nick Eliopulos, Sarah Moon, David Barclay Moore.
Find out more »Word Thursdays Reading: Ginnah Howard & Billy Merrell
Billy Merrell will read alongside poet and novelist Ginnah Howard, author of Night Navigation (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009), which was a New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice, and Rope & Bone (Illume, 2014), which was named as one of the "best of the best Indie books in 2015" by Publishers Weekly.
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