Featured Author Conversation: Kristen Arnett and Paul Rudnick

Room: Schenley Park | Moderator: Shannon Reed | 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM

After the presentation, attendees are welcome to purchase a book and/or get their book signed by the author at the signing tent outside of the main entrance of the library.

Pre-registation is extremely helpful for planning purposes, but is not required. Pre-registered attendees will get priority seating in the event of limited seating. Walk-ins are welcome if capacity allows.

Description

Find out what happens in Paul Rudnick’s heartfelt new novel, which dares to pose the question essential to anyone who’s ever been in love: What Is Wrong with You?
"[A] rollicking farce about the things we do for love. . . . A perfect book for this moment.”
—People (Best New Books)

Equal parts bravado, tenderness, and humor, and bursting with misfits, magicians, musicians, and mimes, Stop Me If You've Heard This One is a masterpiece of comedic fiction that asks big questions about art and performance, friendship and community, and the importance of timing in jokes and in life.

“Wild, luxurious and absurd…Arnett’s craft and her comedy are on full and feral display.” – Washington Post

Biography

Kristen Arnett is the author of the New York Times-bestselling novel Mostly Dead Things and the award-winning collection Felt in the Jaw. A queer writer based in Florida, she has written for The New York Times, Guernica,McSweeney’s, The Guardian, and elsewhere. She has been a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award and a winner of the Ninth Letter Literary Award in Fiction and the Coil Book Award.

Paul Rudnick is the author of What is Wrong With You? His plays have been produced on and off Broadway and include Jeffrey, I Hate Hamlet, Regrets Only, and The New Century. He is a frequent contributor to The New Yorker; his writing has also appeared in Vogue, Esquire, Vanity Fair, and more. His screenplays include Addams Family Values, In & Out, Sister Act, and more.