“New York Times bestselling author Patrick Radden Keefe is the featured guest at The Peters Township Library Foundation’s 7th annual Novel November event, an entertaining and insightful Q&A-style interview, followed by questions from the audience (submitted in advance) and a post-event book signing. Previous featured speakers included Yaa Gyasi, Tim O’Brien, Anna Quindlen, Taylor Jenkins Reid, Andy Weir and V.E. Schwab.
Keefe is a staff writer at The New Yorker and the author of three New York Times bestsellers: Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks, Empire of Pain (a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction), and Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland. Say Nothing received the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction, was selected as one of the ten best books of 2019 by The New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post, Chicago Tribune and The Wall Street Journal, and was named one of the top ten nonfiction books of the decade by Entertainment Weekly. Keefe’s previous books are The Snakeheadand Chatter. His work has been recognized with a Guggenheim Fellowship, the National Magazine Award for Feature Writing and the Orwell Prize for Political Writing. He is also the creator and host of the eight-part podcast Wind of Change.
Tickets for the event will go on sale on Wednesday, September 4, and can be purchased online. Adult general admission tickets are priced at $30, while student tickets are available for $5. All general admission tickets include a post-event book signing with Keefe. Riverstone Books, The Foundation’s independent local bookselling partner, will sell Keefe’s books before and after the program.
A limited number of VIP tickets will be available for $75. The VIP ticket includes a reception with music and light refreshments from 5:45 to 6:45 p.m. in the Peters Township High School cafeteria. VIP ticket holders will receive a copy of one of Keefe’s books and attend a pre-event book signing by Keefe.”
More info: https://events.ptlibrary.org/event/novel-november-14058
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