Luke Goebel + Anna Delvey: Kill Dick

Strand Book Storewas 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.

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Join us for a release event with screenwriter and award-winning author Luke Goebel, discussing his new book KILL DICK.

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Moderating this discussion is New York-based artist Anna Delvey. 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? <a href="https://www.strandbooks.com/kill-dick-9781636284651.html" title="https://www.strandbooks.com/kill-dick-9781636284651.html" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Purchase a signed copy of KILL DICK here.</a> 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 Apr. 13 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---------------------------------------------------------------------"Marked by deliberate instability, the ambitious satirical novel Kill Dick skewers contemporary literary seriousness even as it participates in it." —Foreword ReviewsA fever dream, Kill Dick is a literary thriller that plunges into the chaos of Los Angeles, where addiction, privilege, and corruption combust.At nineteen, Susie Vogelman should be coasting: she’s an NYU dropout with no responsibilities, endless prescription pills, and a Brentwood estate to waste away in. But Los Angeles has other plans. A string of brutal murders targeting addicts spreads through the city, and Susie’s ivory tower begins to crumble. The headlines point too close to home: her father’s ties to an opioid empire, a sinister secret society, and her own complicity in the systems holding it all together.Then there’s Peter Holiday, a disgraced professor running a rehab scam so audacious it’s almost admirable. When their lives collide, Susie and Peter are dragged into a web of privilege, corruption, and violence, where every escape leads deeper into the rot.Dark, satirical, and razor-sharp, Kill Dick is a modern literary thriller that unflinchingly dissects wealth, exploitation, and the perilous line between survival and self-destruction.

Photo credit: Jaxon WhittingtonLuke Goebel won the Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Prize and the Joan Scott Memorial Fiction Award for his debut novel, Fourteen Stories, None of Them Are Yours. His screenwriting credits include Eileen, starring Anne Hathaway and McKenzie Thompson, and Causeway, starring Jennifer Lawrence and Brian Tyree Henry, who received an Oscar nomination for his performance. He is also known for his role as co-editor at The New York Tyrant and work with Tyrant Books. He lives in Pasadena, CA with his wife, fellow author Ottessa Moshfegh.

Anna Delvey is a New York-based artist and media personality known for her provocative presence in fashion and pop culture. After becoming a global headline and the subject of the Netflix series Inventing Anna, she has transitioned into developing fashion collaborations, media projects, and cultural commentary exploring fame, social perception and ambition in an era where identity overlaps with public consumption.

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