House Parties: Short Stories by Lynn Levin
A reading, discussion, and mini lesson
on two aspects of fiction writing with the author
Thursday, January 16, 2025 at 2:00 pm
MacColl Room, First Presbyterian Church
201 S. 21st St.
Fiction writer and poet Lynn Levin returns to Penn's Village with a two-part program. First, she will read "The Ask Sandwich" and "Baby and Gorilla," two flash fiction stories from her critically acclaimed short story collection House Parties (Spuyten Duyvil, 2023). After a reading and discussion of the stories, Lynn will lead a mini lesson on two aspects of fiction writing. Lynn will provide a handout for the mini lesson.
House Parties was named one of the best books of summer by Philadelphia Magazine, which calls the stories "vivid, funny, and quietly powerful...House Parties may break your heart, but it'll never do it the same way twice." The collection comprises 20 stories in which a wide cast of characters pursue whatever right thing or wrong thing they desire—often with weird invention. Readers who love the fiction of Elizabeth Strout, Mary Gordon, Meg Wolitzer, Jim Shepard, and Steve Almond, will find in Lynn Levin’s House Parties more of the humor, gravitas, and irony they admire in contemporary literary fiction.
Books will be available for sale at the event ($20.00, cash or check only). They may also be purchased from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, or wherever books are sold.
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