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Author Talk with Samantha Paige Rosen and Emma Copley Eisenberg
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cover of Fat Swim

Fat Swim

An electrifying collection of linked stories following a cast of characters navigating bodies, queerness, power, and sex—with radical results—from the bestselling author of Housemates.

This book will be available for purchase at the event.

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Book cover: Living, together: reimagining community in the age of disconnection by Samantha Paige Rosen

Living, together: reimagining community in the age of disconnection

"Living, Together opens a window into how people in the US are thriving through collective care. This book invites us to imagine what new opportunities for connection exist when we push through the walls society has built for us.""-- Provided by publisher.

About This Event

Join bestselling authors Samantha Paige Rosen (Living, Together) and Emma Copley Eisenberg (Fat Swim) in celebration of their newest releases, Living, Together and Fat Swim, for a lively conversation about communal living (it’s not just for cults or millennials with a pipe dream!), tales of living in a contradictory world, and collective care on November 2, 7pm. Tickets are highly encouraged to attend this event. Books will be available for purchase and signing at the event.

Featured Authors

Samantha Paige Rosen

Samantha Paige Rosen’s writing on identity, culture, and the arts has appeared in the Washington Post, Harper’s Bazaar, ELLE, Slate, Them, Literary Hub, and elsewhere. She earned her MFA from Sarah Lawrence College and lives outside of Philadelphia, where she is a freelance writer and editor, a writing tutor and coach, and an amateur potter. Living, Together: Reimagining Community in the Age of Disconnection is her first book.

Emma Copley Eisenberg

Emma Copley Eisenberg is the bestselling author of the novel Housemates, nominated for a Lambda Literary Award and the VCU Cabell First Novelist Prize, as well as the nonfiction book The Third Rainbow Girl, a New York Times Notable Book and Editor’s Choice and a finalist for an Edgar Award and an Anthony Award. Her fiction, essays, and criticism have appeared in such publications as Granta, Esquire, VQR, The New Republic, and The Cut, and she writes the popular Substack Frump Feelings. She lives in Philadelphia, where she co-founded Blue Stoop, a community hub for the literary arts.

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Ardmore, PA 19003

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