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Author Event: "My Boyfriend, the Superhero" by Kylie Cheung, with Anna Iovine and Kat Tenbarge
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Featured Book
My Boyfriend, the Superhero (Black Dawn)
This book will be available for purchase at the event.
About This Event
A reading and conversation with Kylie Cheung, author of My Boyfriend, the Superhero, in conversation with Anna Iovine and Kat Tenbarge. A breed of newly arrived superhumans form an elite team that patrols and supposedly protects the world, keeping ordinary inhabitants safer. But criminology researcher Dr. Elisabeth Atwood disagrees, and after personal tragedy strikes, she becomes the face of a movement exposing the dangers of the superheroes’ unfettered power. By turns erotic and deranged, My Boyfriend, the Superher o is a feminist psychothriller that courts ambiguity in this era of increasing surveillance and police violence.
[ ABOUT THIS EVENT : The rear of the store will be used exclusively for this event. The front bar will be open to the public for drinking & chatting. Book browsing will remain open.]
Featured Author
Cheung, Kylie
Kylie Cheung is a feminist journalist and the author of several books on gender and politics, including Survivor Injustice: State-Sanctioned Abuse, Domestic Violence, and the Fight for Bodily Autonomy, Coercion: Surviving and Resisting Abortion Bans, and Playing the Victim: How The Powerful Deny and Attack Survivors of Violence, from Domestic Abuse to Genocide. My Boyfriend, the Superhero is her first novel. She is based in Brooklyn.
Presenters
Anna Iovine
Anna Iovine is a journalist, fiction writer, and union activist. She's currently the associate features editor at Mashable and is working on a novel.
Kat Tenbarge
Kat Tenbarge is an award-winning independent journalist behind the newsletter Spitfire News. She also runs a YouTube channel about feminism and pop culture.
About the Venue
Book Club Bar Bushwick
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