RF Kuang at The Historic Artcraft Theatre

Join us on Friday, August 29th at 6:30 pm at The Historic Artcraft Theatre for an evening with #1 New York Times bestselling author R.F. Kuang, R.F. will discuss her new novel Katabasis.

A ticket includes entry to the event and a signed hardcover deluxe limited edition copy of the book.

If you will not be attending the event, please use this link to preorder your copy for pick up or shipping after the event.

Tickets include R.F.'s newest book in hardcover and admission to the event. Pizza, popcorn and drinks will be available for purchase. We anticipate this will be a sold-out show. A ticket is required to attend the event.

We are pleased to provide accessibility accommodations for this event upon request. To arrange accommodations or request additional information about accommodations for this event please email eventservices@wildgeesebookshop.com

Publisher Guidelines:

A signing line will be held after the event. R.F. will personalize one copy of a title of your choosing. Please note: There will be no photos with the author.

Additional copies of R.F.'s books will be available for purchase at the event.

Event Policies:

• Outside food or drink is not permitted at this venue.

• Photo/Signing line positions are assigned first come first served upon arrival of person and ticket scanned.

• A ticket is required for every person attending this event above the age of 2. This event does not allow at-the-door sales and individuals without a ticket can not be allowed entry.

• We love it when people share memories from their night but recording long-form video of the author's talk is not allowed at this event. Long-form video is considered to be any recorded video reaching a combined total of more than 3 minutes in length.

• By attending this event you are giving consent to be photographed or recorded by Wild Geese Bookshop.

• Can't make it to the event? Please email hello@wildgeesebookshop.com to arrange for shipping or pick up of your book.

• Books not picked up after 60 days are forfeited and can not be refunded.

About the book:

Dante’s Inferno meets Susanna Clarke’s Piranesi in this all-new dark academia fantasy from R. F. Kuang, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Babel and Yellowface, in which two graduate students must put aside their rivalry and journey to Hell to save their professor’s soul—perhaps at the cost of their own.

Katabasis, noun, Ancient Greek:

The story of a hero’s descent to the underworld

Alice Law has only ever had one goal: to become one of the brightest minds in the field of Magick. She has sacrificed everything to make that a reality: her pride, her health, her love life, and most definitely her sanity. All to work with Professor Jacob Grimes at Cambridge, the greatest magician in the world.

That is, until he dies in a magical accident that could possibly be her fault.

Grimes is now in Hell, and she’s going in after him. Because his recommendation could hold her very future in his now incorporeal hands and even death is not going to stop the pursuit of her dreams….

Nor will the fact that her rival, Peter Murdoch, has come to the very same conclusion.

With nothing but the tales of Orpheus and Dante to guide them, enough chalk to draw the Pentagrams necessary for their spells, and the burning desire to make all the academic trauma mean anything, they set off across Hell to save a man they don’t even like.

But Hell is not like the storybooks say, Magick isn’t always the answer, and there’s something in Alice and Peter’s past that could forge them into the perfect allies…or lead to their doom.

About the author:

Rebecca F. Kuang is the #1 New York Times and #1 Sunday Times bestselling author of the Poppy War trilogy, Babel: An Arcane History, and Yellowface. Her work has won the Nebula, Locus, Crawford, and British Book Awards. A Marshall Scholar, she has an MPhil in Chinese Studies from Cambridge and an MSc in Contemporary Chinese Studies from Oxford. She is now pursuing a PhD in East Asian Languages and Literatures at Yale, where she studies diaspora, contemporary Sinophone literature, and Asian American literature.