Steven Rowley & Catherine Newman in Conversation

Room: Lecture Hall

Building: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh - Main (Oakland)

Time: 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM

Books: After the presentation, attendees are welcome to purchase a book and/or get their book signed in the Lecture Hall.

Pre-registration: Closes on Thursday, 5/28, at 12 PM. Pre-registered attendees will receive priority seating. Walk-ins are welcome if capacity allows.

Moderator: Shannon Reed

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What happens when life doesn’t quite go as planned? Join New York Times bestselling authors Steven Rowley and Catherine Newman as they discuss the beauty and pain of everyday life and relationships with humor and heart.

“Only national treasure Steven Rowley could blur the otherworldly with the everyday and turn all of it into heartache-flavored comedy.” —Catherine Newman, New York Times bestselling author of Sandwich and Wreck

“Wreck is the kind of book that pulls up a chair, pours the wine, and dives deep—equal parts hilarious, sharp, and achingly sincere. I didn’t just read it—I felt known by it. A luminous, laugh-out-loud triumph.”—Alison Espach, New York Times bestselling author of The Wedding People

Author Biographies

Steven Rowley is the New York Times bestselling author of Lily and the Octopus; The Editor; The Guncle, winner of the Thurber Prize for American Humor and Goodreads Choice Awards finalist for Novel of the Year; The Celebrants, a Today Show Read with Jenna book club pick; The Guncle Abroad; and the novella The Dogs of Venice. He resides in Palm Springs, California.

Catherine Newman is the author of the novels Sandwich and Wreck, which were both instant New York Times bestsellers, the novel We All Want Impossible Things, the memoirs Catastrophic Happiness and Waiting for Birdy, the middle-grade novel One Mixed-Up Night, and the best-selling how-to books for kids How to Be a Person and What Can I Say? She writes the Crone Sandwich Substack newsletter.

Moderator Biography

Shannon is the author of the best-selling Why We Read, as well as Why Did I Get a B? and the upcoming My Girls. She's the Director of the Undergraduate Creative Writing Program at Pitt.

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