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PRESENTERS: William Boyle & Lucas Schaefer
BOOK: Saint of the Narrows Street & The Slip
MODERATOR: Eli Cranor
William Boyle is the author of eight books set in and around the southern Brooklyn neighborhood of Gravesend, where he was born and raised. His most recent novel is Saint of the Narrows Street. His books have been nominated for the Hammett Prize, the New Blood Dagger Award, and the Grand Prix de Littérature Policière, and they have been included on best-of lists in the Washington Post, CrimeReads, and more. He lives in Oxford, Mississippi.
Lucas Schaefer’s work has appeared in One Story, the Baffler, Slate, and elsewhere. He holds an MFA from the New Writers Project at the University of Texas in Austin and lives with his family in Austin. The Slip is his first novel.
Saint of the Narrows Street is an operatic crime drama portraying characters forced into desperate action and doomed to reckon with their decisions across three decades in their southern Brooklyn neighborhood.
The novel The Slip is a haymaker of an American novel that features a missing teenage boy, situations of shifting and mistaken identity, and the transformative power of boxing. Bobbing and weaving across the canvas of a changing country, it is an audacious, daring look at sex and race in America.
AGE GROUP: | Teens ages 12-19 | Adults |
EVENT TYPE: | Society & Culture | Literature & Language |
TAGS: | SixBridgesBookFestival | RonRobinsonTheater |
Today's hours
We're open 9:00AM to 5:30PM
The Ron Robinson Theater is a 315-seat multi-purpose event venue. Part of the Central Arkansas Library System’s (CALS) Main Library campus, it is designed to provide programs for all ages including films, music performances, plays, readings, lectures, speakers, and children’s activities. The theater is equipped with a state-of-the-art DCI-compliant Barco digital cinema projection system and 32′ wide retractable screen; and, a versatile sound system capable of Dolby 5.1 surround audio for movies, with a CL3 digital mixing console with ample inputs for traditional music concerts.
