Event guidelines:

• All attendees are encouraged to wear face masks at all times.
• RSVP is highly encouraged but not required.
• Additional copies of the readers’ books will be available for purchase in-store.
• The readings will be followed by a book signing.
• As a reminder: If you are not feeling well, please do not come to the event, even if you have a ticket; email us and we’ll work it out.

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This Indie Bookstore Day, we’re celebrating women’s rights AND women’s wrongs with Melissa Lozada-Oliva (Candelaria), Megan Milks (Slug and Other Stories), and Chelsea G. Summers, reading from her brand-new, IBD-exclusive novella, An Excellent Host!

Each author will read for 15 minutes in the Peter Straub Reading Room, and then sign books inside:

• 12-12:30 pm: Melissa Lozada-Oliva
• 12:45-1:15 pm: Megan Milks
• 1:30-2:00 pm: Chelsea G. Summers

Come for one, come for all! It’s a day for reading, dancing, loving, eating (IYKYK), and more!

Melissa Lozada-Oliva is the author of Peluda, Dreaming of You, and Candelaria, which was named one of the best books of the year by USA Today and Vogue. She is the cohost of the podcast Say More and runs a substack called READING SUCKS. She received her MFA from NYU in 2020 and lives in Brooklyn.

Megan Milks is the author of Margaret and the Mystery of the Missing Body, a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award in Transgender Fiction, and Slug and Other Stories, both published by Feminist Press in 2021. Their personal history of early online music fandom, Tori Amos Bootleg Webring, was also published in 2021 (Instar Books). With Marisa Crawford, they co-edited the anthology We Are the Baby-Sitters Club: Essays and Artwork from Grown-Up Readers (Chicago Review Press).

Chelsea G. Summers is a former academic and college professor with Ph.D. training in eighteenth-century British literature. A freelance writer, Chelsea’s work has appeared in New York Magazine, Vogue, The New Republic, Racked, The Guardian, and other fine publications. She splits her time between New York and Stockholm, Sweden. A Certain Hunger is her first novel.

Time: 12:00-2:00 pm EST

Free!

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