KENT—House of Books will welcome three authors over a two-day period later this month.
Dan Slater, author of “The Incorruptibles,” will give the first author’s talk Friday, Oct 18, at 6 p.m. at the House of Books.
The event is co-presented with Kent Memorial Library.
Slater’s book tells the tale of early 20th-century New York, revealing the true stories of an immigrant underworld, a secret vice squad and the rise of organized crime.
Drawing from never-before-seen sources, Slater tells an often-brutal saga of crime and redemption, exhuming a buried history that shaped the modern world.
His presentation will be followed on Saturday, Oct. 19, also at 6 p.m., by authors Sara Daniele Rivera and Laura Marris, who will talk about and sign copies of their poetry books, “The Blue Mimes” and “The Age of Loneliness.”
Daniele Rivera’s award-winning debut is a sprawling elegy in the face of catastrophic grief, both personal and public.
From the lead-up to the 2016 presidential election through the COVID-19 pandemic, the poems memorialize lost loved ones and meditate on the not-yet gone—all while the wider-world loses its sense of connection, safety and assurance.
Marris is an essayist, poet and translator. Her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in The Believer, Harper’s, The New York Times, The Paris Review Daily, The Yale Review, Words Without Borders and elsewhere. Her first solo book, “The Age of Loneliness,” was published by Graywolf in August.
