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SUMMARY:Lucy Jane Bledsoe presents her new novel Tell the Rest (in person event & live-streaming)
DESCRIPTION:Stonewall Award winning author Lucy Jane Bledsoe presents her new novel\, Tell the Rest\, which follows the lives of two estranged childhood friends who find themselves on parallel paths to return to the site of the conversion therapy camp that tore them apart. \nLucy will be joined in conversation by author Kirstin Valdez Quade\, author of the award-winning novel The Five Wounds and the short story collection Night at the Fiestas. \n  \nCopies of Tell the Rest (Akashic Books\, 2023\, hardcover $28.95) are available at the Bureau’s physical and online stores. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThank you for supporting the Bureau by purchasing books from us! \n  \nThis event will take place in person at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division\, on the second floor (room 210) of The LGBT Community Center\, 208 W. 13th St.\, NYC\, 10011. \nRegistration is not required. Seating is first come\, first served.\nAlso live-streaming at YouTube.com/@bgsqd \n  \nSuggested donation $10 to benefit the Bureau’s work. \nAll are welcome to attend\, with or without donation. \nWe will pass a bag for donations at the start of the event\, but we can also take credit card donations at the register or on Venmo @bgsqd. \n  \nLUCY JANE BLEDSOE is the author of several works of fiction\, including A Thin Bright Line\, which was a Lambda Literary Award and Ferro-Grumley Award finalist. She is the winner of an American Library Association Stonewall Award\, a Yaddo Fellowship\, a California Arts Council Fellowship in Literature\, two National Science Foundation Artists & Writers Fellowships\, and a finalist for the Northern California Independent Booksellers Association Fiction Award. A native of Portland\, Oregon\, she now lives in Berkeley\, California. Tell the Rest is her latest work. \n  \nKirstin Valdez Quade is the author of The Five Wounds\, which won the Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize and the Rosenthal Family Foundation Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award and the Lambda Literary Award. Her story collection\, Night at the Fiestas\, won the John Leonard Prize from the National Book Critics Circle\, the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters\, and a “5 Under 35” award from the National Book Foundation. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker\, The Best American Short Stories\, The O. Henry Prize Stories\, The New York Times\, and elsewhere. She teaches at Princeton and in September will join the faculty of the Stanford Creative Writing Program. (Author photo by Holly Andres)
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LOCATION:Bureau of General Services–Queer Division\, 208 West 13th Street\, Room 210\, New York\, NY\, 10011\, United States
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