IN-PERSON - Jason Rekulak | Hidden Pictures

1901 Vine Street,Philadelphia PA 19103

18 May, 2022

Description

The Edgar Award-nominated writer and former publisher of Quirk Books presents a supernatural thriller featuring a nanny and a young artist In conversation with Liz Moore Jason Rekulak’s Edgar Award–nominated debut novel The Impossible Fortress tells a coming-of- age story of first love, old school computer programming, and the heist of a Playboy magazine that features Vanna White. Rekulak is the former publisher of Philadelphia-based Quirk Books, where he managed the acquisition of a number of, well, very quirky books, including the #1 New York Times bestseller Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, the Edgar Award– winning novel The Last Policeman, and the literary mashup Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, among many others. Inspired by the supernatural thriller, Hidden Pictures is about a nanny who becomes increasingly disturbed by the drawings the five-year-old child that she is caring for creates. Liz Moore is the bestselling author of Long Bright River, The Words of Every Song, Heft, and The Unseen World. A creative writing professor in the M.F.A. program at Temple University, her fiction and nonfiction have been published in Tin House and The New York Times, among other publications. Due to the changing nature of the COVID-19 pandemic, please visit our website before all events to find the latest guidance about mask requirements. Books will be available for purchase at the library on event night. A book signing will follow the presentation. Books provided by Uncle Bobbie's Coffee and Books