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Courtney Maum in conversation with Angie Kim

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Oct 09

Courtney Maum in conversation with Angie Kim

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Wed, October 9, 2019, 7:30 PM – 8:30 PM EDT

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Old Town Books 104 South Union Street Alexandria, VA 22314

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Join us for a free book talk and signing, as Courtney Maum, author of Costalegre, is in conversation with Miracle Creek author Angie Kim, talking about her new novel, the writing process, and much more! The talk will conclude with audience Q&A and a signing.

Please note, only copies of Costalegre and Miracle Creek purchased at Old Town Books will be available for signing - this helps us keep our free literary and arts programming sustainable!

About Courtney Maum: Courtney Maum is the author of the acclaimed novels TOUCH and I AM HAVING SO MUCH FUN HERE WITHOUT YOU, which were both selected by such outlets as O Magazine, Time Magazine, The New York Times, Glamour, Marie Claire and others as one of the best books of summer. (TOUCH was a New York Times editor's choice and an NPR Best Books of 2017 pick.) Her chapbook NOTES FROM MEXICO is part travelogue and part eulogy and is available here. Her short fiction, book reviews, and essays on the writing life have been widely published in outlets such as The New York Times, O Magazine, Tin House, Electric Literature, and Buzzfeed, and she has co-written films that have debuted at Sundance and won awards at Cannes. At various points in her life, she has been a trend forecaster, a fashion publicist, and a party promoter for Corona Extra. She currently works as a product namer for M·A·C cosmetics and other companies from her home in Litchfield County, CT, where she founded the learning collaborative, The Cabins which will take place again in the summer of 2020. Courtney has two new books forthcoming in 2019: COSTALEGRE (Tin House), a novel about European surrealists fleeing World War II, and BEFORE AND AFTER THE BOOK DEAL: A writer’s guide to finishing, publishing, promoting and surviving your first book (Catapult), a humorous guide to help aspiring authors navigate their debut publishing experience. She also runs a service called “The Query Doula” where she helps writers prepare their manuscripts and query letters for an agent’s eyes.

About Angie Kim: Angie Kim is the author of the national bestseller Miracle Creek (published this April by Farrar Straus and Giroux/Macmillan), a literary courtroom drama that has been named an IndieNext and LibraryReads pick, a Best Book of 2019 So Far by Time Magazine and Amazon, a Washington Post Summer Reads selection, and a Top 10 AppleBooks Debuts of the Year. Her writing has appeared in Vogue, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Glamour, Salon, and Slate. She moved from Seoul, Korea, to Baltimore as a preteen, and attended Stanford University and Harvard Law School, where she was an editor of the Harvard Law Review. She lives in Northern Virginia with her husband and three sons. Miracle Creek is her debut novel.

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