# Event Details - **Event Name**: Melissa Faliveno launches "Hemlock," in conversation with T Kira Madden - **Event Start and End Date**: Fri, 23 Jan, 2026 at 06:30 pm – Fri, 23 Jan, 2026 at 08:00 pm - **Event Description**: "Hauntingly visceral and utterly mesmerizing . . . 'Hemlock' is urgent, unapologetic, and utterly unforgettable." —Chelsea BiekerAbout this EventJoin us for the New York launch of Melissa Faliveno's Hemlock, a queer Gothic novel about a woman haunted by a dark inheritance who returns to the woods where her mother vanished.Melissa will be joined by author T Kira Madden for a reading, conversation, Q&A, reception and signing. Light refreshments will be served.Preorder your copy of !Can't make it to the event? Preorder at the link above to receive a signed copy for store pickup or shipping. Indicate any personalization requests in the "Instructions and comments" field during checkout.About the bookSam, finally sober and stable with a cat and a long-term boyfriend in Brooklyn, returns alone to Hemlock, her family’s deteriorating cabin deep in the Wisconsin Northwoods. But a quick, practical trip takes a turn for the worse when the rot and creak of the forest starts to creep in around the edges of Sam’s mind. It starts, as it always does, with a beer.As Sam dips back into the murky waters of dependency, the inexplicable begins to arrive at her door and her body takes on a strange new shape. As the borders of reality begin to blur, she senses she is battling something sinister—whether nested in the woods or within herself.Hemlock is a carnal coming-of-addiction, a dark sparkler about rapture, desire, transformation, and transcendence in many forms. What lives at the heart of fear—animal, monster, or man? How can we reject our own inheritance, the psychic storm that’s been coming for generations, and rebuild a new home for ourselves? In the tradition of Han Kang’s The Vegetarian, Hemlock is a butch Black Swan and a novel of singular style, with all the edginess of a survival story and a simmering menace that glints from the very periphery of the page.About the authorMelissa Faliveno is the author of the debut essay collection Tomboyland, named a Best Book of 2020 by NPR, New York Public Library, Oprah Magazine, Electric Literature, and Debutiful, and recipient of a 2021 Award for Outstanding Literary Achievement from the Wisconsin Library Association. Her writing has appeared in Esquire, Paris Review, Kenyon Review, Literary Hub, Ms. Magazine, Bitch magazine, and Brooklyn Rail, among others, and in the anthologies Sex and the Single Woman and the forthcoming Hit Repeat Until I Hate Music. Born and raised in small-town Wisconsin and a longtime resident of Greenpoint, Brooklyn, she teaches creative writing at the University of North Carolina and lives in the woods outside Chapel Hill.About T Kira MaddenT Kira Madden is a diasporic Kanaka 'Ōiwi (Native Hawaiian) writer and author of the novel Whidbey, forthcoming with Mariner in winter 2026. Her memoir, Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls, was named a New York Times Editors' Choice, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Prize, and the Lambda Literary Award. She is the Founding Editor of No Tokens, a magazine of literature and art, and has received fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts, Hedgebrook, Tin House, MacDowell, and Yaddo. Winner of the 2021 Judith A. Markowitz Award, she served as the Distinguished Writer in Residence at University of Hawai'i at Mānoa and currently teaches at Hamilton College as an assistant professor in Creative Writing and Indigenous literatures. - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/brooklyn/melissa-faliveno-launches-hemlock-in-conversation-with-t-kira-madden/100001977032941749 - **Event Categories**: art, literary-art - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 0 ## Ticket Details - **Ticket URL**: https://consumer.pxf.io/c/1339408/3151484/39691?partnerpropertyid=1191892&MediaPartnerPropertyId=1191892&svlink=14105511&level=1&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.eventbrite.com%2Fe%2Fmelissa-faliveno-launches-hemlock-in-conversation-with-t-kira-madden-tickets-1977032941749 - **Ticket Price Range**: min: 0, max: 0, currency: USD ## Event venue details - **city**: Brooklyn - **state**: NY - **country**: United States - **location**: Lofty Pigeon Books, Church Avenue, Brooklyn, NY, USA - **lat**: 40.6461221 - **long**: -73.9719605 - **full address**: Lofty Pigeon Books, Church Avenue, Brooklyn, NY, USA, United States ## Event Organizer details - **affiliate_id**: 10 - **organizer**: Lofty Pigeon Books (https://allevents.in/org/lofty-pigeon-books/22528523) ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: banner - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events7/banners/f44e8098aca742acb84105d1a5e3eddc4a5ff54f75a1dbf2bbf0578186543f92-rimg-w1200-h600-dc3d7a71-gmir.jpg?v=1766226437 - **Alt text**: thumbnail - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events7/banners/1a65c5c09ffda83999978dc9238daad30d6599931af88700f12967e88ff4f63d-rimg-w400-h400-dc3d7971-gmir.jpg?v=1766226436 ## FAQs - **Q**: When is the event happening? - **A:** Fri, 23 Jan, 2026 at 06:30 pm - **Q**: Where is the event happening? - **A:** Lofty Pigeon Books, Church Avenue, Brooklyn, NY, USA, United States - **Q**: What is the ticket price? - **A:** starting from 0 up to 0 USD - **Q**: Who is organizing the event? - **A:** Lofty Pigeon Books - **Q**: What type of event is this? - **A:** art, literary-art - **Q**: Where can I find ticket details about Melissa Faliveno launches "Hemlock," in conversation with T Kira Madden ? - **A:** You can find ticket details about this event on AllEvents. ## Structured Data (JSON-LD) ```json [ { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@type": "Event", "name": "Melissa Faliveno launches "Hemlock," in conversation with T Kira Madden", "image": "https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events7/banners/f44e8098aca742acb84105d1a5e3eddc4a5ff54f75a1dbf2bbf0578186543f92-rimg-w1200-h600-dc3d7a71-gmir.jpg?v=1766226437", "startDate": "2026-01-23", "endDate": "2026-01-23", "url": "https://allevents.in/brooklyn/melissa-faliveno-launches-hemlock-in-conversation-with-t-kira-madden/100001977032941749", "location": { "@type": "Place", "name": "Lofty Pigeon Books, Church Avenue, Brooklyn, NY, USA", "address": { "@type": "PostalAddress", "streetAddress": "743 Church Avenue", "postalCode": "11218", "addressLocality": "Brooklyn", "addressRegion": "NY", "addressCountry": "US" }, "geo": { "@type": "GeoCoordinates", "latitude": "40.6461221", "longitude": "-73.9719605" } }, "eventAttendanceMode": "https://schema.org/OfflineEventAttendanceMode", "description": "\"Hauntingly visceral and utterly mesmerizing . . . 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