Name: Obsessions! A Memory Piece Paperback Launch
Start: 2025-03-25T18:30:00-04:00
End: 2025-03-25T20:00:00-04:00
Location: P&T Knitwear Books & Podcasts

Obsessions! A Memory Piece Paperback Launch

P&T Knitwear regularly hosts author events, readings, conversations, panels, workshops, book signings, and other creative programming. We are open to creative events, even if they do not have a book attached. P&T Knitwear is happy to host your school or organization's next fundraiser. We are happy to curate a fundraiser especially for your organization. We host special shopping nights, curate book selections, create custom online order lists, and give you the tools you need to motivate your supporters to come out and buy books in support of your school or organization.We are also happy to work with NGOs, schools, PTAs, and educators to create custom online book fairs.If you are a professional publicist representing a publisher with whom it's likely we have an active account, you may contact us directly about your request: info [at] ptknitwear.com

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To celebrate the paperback release of Lisa Ko’s most recent novel, <a href="https://ptknitwear.com/item/wCIDqQu6pg-JU3dvxNALDg" title="https://ptknitwear.com/item/wCIDqQu6pg-JU3dvxNALDg" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Memory Piece</a>, P&amp;T Knitwear is pleased to host a night of author presentations on topics they’re obsessed with — from recent internet wormholes to novel ‘research.'Lisa will be joined by Jennifer Baker, author of Forgive Me Not; Temim Fruchter, author of City of Laughter; Benedict Nguyễn, author of Hot Girls with Balls; and Nina Sharma, author of The Way You Make Me Feel: Love in Black and Brown. Each of these writers will share presentations on their favorite obsessions. Afterwards, Lisa will sign copies of <a href="https://ptknitwear.com/item/wCIDqQu6pg-JU3dvxNALDg" title="https://ptknitwear.com/item/wCIDqQu6pg-JU3dvxNALDg" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Memory Piece</a>.An innovative and visionary novel, set across eighty years — the predigital 1980s, the art and tech subcultures of the 90s, and an imagined portrait of the 2040s — from the critically acclaimed author of The Leavers, <a href="https://ptknitwear.com/item/wCIDqQu6pg-JU3dvxNALDg" title="https://ptknitwear.com/item/wCIDqQu6pg-JU3dvxNALDg" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Memory Piece</a> investigates the lives of three lifelong friends as their relationship matures, their definitions of success become complicated, and their sense of what matters evolves. <h3><a href="https://ptknitwear.com/item/wCIDqQu6pg-JU3dvxNALDg" title="https://ptknitwear.com/item/wCIDqQu6pg-JU3dvxNALDg" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">RESERVE YOUR SIGNED PAPERBACK EDITION OF MEMORY PIECE: A NOVEL</a></h3><h4>AVAILABLE TO SHIP MOST PLACES</h4>• NAMED ONE OF TIME'S MUST-READ BOOKS OF 2024 • ONE OF NPR’s BEST READS OF 2024 • A VOGUE BEST BOOK OF 2024 • ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE READS OF SUMMER 2024•<h4> </h4><ul><li>This is a ticketed in-store event with limited amphitheater-style seating. Doors open at 6:30pm.</li><li>Cost of a $5 general admission ticket can be applied towards your purchase of the featured event book or any product in our café the night of an event.</li><li>Cost of a book bundle ticket reflects the total cost of the feature event book (MSRP plus tax). Each book bundle ticket guarantees ticket holders one (1) copy of the feature event book.</li><li>The talk will be followed by a book signing. Books signed at P&amp;T Knitwear events must be purchased from P&amp;T Knitwear. If you would like a signed copy and cannot attend the event, we're happy to take your pre-order. We ship most places!</li><li>We encourage all guests to wear masks.</li></ul> ABOUT THE AUTHORS <a href="http://lisa-ko.com/" title="http://lisa-ko.com/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Lisa Ko</a> is the author of the nationally bestselling novel <a href="https://ptknitwear.com/item/3w5NF3kptRADN_Pig0pi0A" title="https://ptknitwear.com/item/3w5NF3kptRADN_Pig0pi0A" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">The Leavers</a>, which was a finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction and the PEN/Hemingway Award, and winner of the 2016 PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction. Ko’s short fiction has appeared in The Best American Short Stories and her essays and nonfiction have been published in The New York Times and The Believer.<a href="https://www.jennifernbaker.com/" title="https://www.jennifernbaker.com/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Jennifer Baker</a> is a publishing professional of twenty years, the creator and host of the <a href="https://www.minoritiesinpublishing.com/episodes" title="https://www.minoritiesinpublishing.com/episodes" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Minorities in Publishing</a> podcast, and editor of the short story anthology <a href="https://ptknitwear.com/item/ULpFLNJxI5ZVNXcwevW-9w" title="https://ptknitwear.com/item/ULpFLNJxI5ZVNXcwevW-9w" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Everyday People: The Color of Life</a>. She has volunteered with organizations such as <a href="https://diversebooks.org/" title="https://diversebooks.org/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">We Need Diverse Books</a> and <a href="https://www.reneewatson.net/i-too-arts-collective" title="https://www.reneewatson.net/i-too-arts-collective" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">I, Too, Arts Collective</a>, and spoken widely on topics of inclusion, the craft of writing, podcasting, and the inner workings of the publishing industry. Her fiction, nonfiction, and criticism have appeared in various print and online publications.<a href="https://www.temimfruchter.com/" title="https://www.temimfruchter.com/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Temim Fruchter</a> is a queer nonbinary anti-Zionist Jewish writer who lives in Brooklyn, NY. She holds an MFA in fiction from the University of Maryland, and is the recipient of fellowships from the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, Vermont Studio Center, and a 2020 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer's Award. She is co-host of Pete’s Reading Series in Brooklyn. Her debut novel, <a href="https://ptknitwear.com/item/wLu_br6H3tWswgsKtzV-Wg" title="https://ptknitwear.com/item/wLu_br6H3tWswgsKtzV-Wg" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">City of Laughter</a>, a New York Times Editors’ Pick, is out now on Grove Atlantic.<a href="https://benedict-nguyen.com/" title="https://benedict-nguyen.com/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Benedict Nguyễn</a> is a freelance dancer, creative producer, and gym buff. She’s the author of the [redacted] freelance labor zine <a href="https://benedict-nguyen.com/nasty-notes" title="https://benedict-nguyen.com/nasty-notes" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">nasty notes</a> and the debut novel <a href="https://ptknitwear.com/item/-2678iiMGVe4rdjjFfmIhw" title="https://ptknitwear.com/item/-2678iiMGVe4rdjjFfmIhw" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Hot Girls with Balls</a>, forthcoming from Catapult on July 1.<a href="https://www.nina-sharma.com/" title="https://www.nina-sharma.com/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Nina Sharma</a>’s work has appeared in The New Yorker, Electric Literature, Longreads, and The Margins. A graduate of the MFA program at Columbia University, she served as the programs director at the <a href="https://aaww.org/" title="https://aaww.org/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Asian American Writers’ Workshop</a> and currently teaches at Columbia and Barnard College. She is a proud cofounder of the all–South Asian women’s improv group <a href="https://www.instagram.com/notyourbiwiimprov/?hl=en" title="https://www.instagram.com/notyourbiwiimprov/?hl=en" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Not Your Biwi</a>.

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