Glynnis MacNicol + Katy Tur: I'm Mostly Here to Enjoy Myself
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Glynnis MacNicol + Katy Tur: I'm Mostly Here to Enjoy Myself

Join us for an in-person event with award-winning writer Glynnis MacNicol for the launch of her new memoir I'm Mostly Here to Enjoy Myself.

By The Strand Book Store

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Starts on Tuesday, June 11 · 7pm EDT

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Strand Book Store

828 Broadway 3rd Floor, Rare Book Room New York, NY 10003

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  • 1 hour 30 minutes

Join us for an in-person event with award-winning writer Glynnis MacNicol for the launch of her new memoir I'm Mostly Here to Enjoy Myself: One Woman's Pursuit of Pleasure in Paris. Joining Glynnis in conversation is New York Times bestselling author Katy Tur. This event will be hosted in the Strand Book Store's 3rd floor Rare Book Room at 828 Broadway on 12th Street.


Can’t make the event? Purchase a signed copy of I'm Mostly Here to Enjoy Myself here.


STRAND IN-PERSON EVENT COVID-19 POLICY:

Masks and vaccination checks are not required for entry.

Attendees are welcome to wear a mask if they choose. If you do not have a mask and would like one, The Strand will provide masks at the door.

Please note this is subject to change any time before or during the event per the author’s request.


ACCESSIBILITY:

Strand Book Store is an ADA compliant venue. The event space is accessible via elevator.

ASL interpretation is available for this event by request only. Please reach out to our events team at events@strandbooks.com by May 28th to request.

Please ask a Strand employee upon arrival for directions to accessible seating if preferred.

For further information on accessibility in this space, or to make a request, please contact events@strandbooks.com

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After New York City emptied out in March 2020, Glynnis MacNicol, aged forty-six, unmarried with no children, spent sixteen months alone in her tiny Manhattan apartment. The isolation was punishing. A year without touch. Women are warned of invisibility as they age, but this was an extreme loneliness no one can prepare you for. When the opportunity to sublet a friend’s apartment in Paris arose in August 2021, MacNicol jumped on it. Leaving felt less like a risk than a necessity. What follows is a decadent, unexpected journey into one woman’s pursuit of radical enjoyment. MacNicol spends her weeks in Paris hurling herself into every good thing she can find: friendship, food, sex. The result is both a sharp meditation on female pleasure and age, and a transcendent tour de force.


Glynnis MacNicol is a writer and the author of the memoir No One Tells You This. She created and hosted the podcast WILDER: A Reckoning with the Legacy of Laura Ingalls Wilder. She lives in New York City.

Photo credit: James Magnifico

Katy Tur is the anchor of Katy Tur Reports on MSNBC, a correspondent for NBC Nightly News, and the New York Times bestselling author of Rough Draft and Unbelievable. Tur is the recipient of a 2017 Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism.

Photo: Virginia Sherwood

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The Strand Book Store

Strand Book Store was born in 1927 on Fourth Avenue on what was then called “Book Row,” an area that covered six city blocks and housed forty-eight bookstores. Our founder Benjamin Bass was all of twenty-five years old when he began his modest used bookstore and sought to create a place where books would be loved, and book lovers could congregate. Ninety years and a move over to Broadway, the Strand is still run by the Bass Family and is home to four floors of over 2.5 million used, new, and rare books, a wide array of bookish gifts, and fun literary events held almost every night of the week. From the dollar carts outside to the Rare Book Room on the third floor, and cheeky graffiti-ing throughout the store courtesy of Steve “EPSO” Powers, the iconic store now stands testament a place for book lovers to explore.