Authors on Tap: Hannah Pittard and Rowan Beaird

Please join us in person on Friday, July 25th at 7:00pm central to help celebrate Hannah Pittard's new novel, If You Love It, Let It K*ll You. Hannah will be in conversation with Rowan Beaird!

About If You Love It, Let It K*ll You:

A Lit Hub Most Anticipated Book of the Year!

A refreshingly irreverent novel about art, desire, domesticity, freedom, and the intricacies of the twenty-first-century female experience, from the acclaimed writer Hannah Pittard.

A novelist learns that an unflattering version of herself will appear prominently—and soon—in her ex-husband’s debut. For a week, her life continues largely unaffected by the news—she cooks, runs, teaches, entertains—but the morning after baking mac ’n’ cheese from scratch for her nephew’s sixth birthday, she wakes up changed. The contentment she’s long enjoyed is gone. In its place: nothing. A remarkably ridiculous midlife crisis ensues, featuring a talking cat and a game called Dead Body.

Steeped in the strangeness of contemporary life and suggestive of expansive metaphoric possibilities, If You Love It, Let It K*ll You is a deeply nuanced and disturbingly funny examination of memory, ownership, and artistic expression.

About the authors:

Hannah Pittard is the author, most recently, of the novel IF YOU LOVE IT LET IT K*ll YOU, one of New York Times’ 31 Books to Read This Summer. She is a MacDowell and Ragdale fellow, a winner of the Amanda Davis Highwire Fiction Award, and the Guy M. Davenport Professor in English at the University of Kentucky. She lives in Lexington.

Rowan Beaird's stories have appeared in The Kenyon Review, The Southern Review, and The Common, among others. She is the recipient of the Ploughshares Emerging Writer Award, and her work has been nominated for a Pushcart. Her first novel, The Divorcées, was named a best book by Harper’s Bazaar, Elle, People, The Independent, and the Chicago Review of Books.

About this event:

This is a free, in person event and registration is required. Please click on the link below to register for free. Hannah and Rowan will be happy to sign/personalize copies of their books after the event! Can't make it to the event? Signed copies will be available in store and online with national shipping!

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