# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Meaghan Garvey - Midwestern Death Trip
- **Event Start and End Date**: Thu, 18 Jun, 2026 at 06:00 pm
- **Event Description**: Meaghan Garvey combines the road trip genre, at which she excels, with a heartbreaking coming-of-age story.

Left Bank Books and the Left Bank Books Foundation is delighted to welcome nationally published writer, critic, and essayist Meaghan Garvey, author of Midwestern Death Trip (2026), to St. Louis. 

Join us at Left Bank Books to welcome Meaghan Garvey for a presentation and book signing, free and open to the public, or watch the livestream on Left Bank Books' YouTube page. 
https://www.youtube.com/@LeftBankBooks/streams

RSVPs are appreciated.
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Propelled by her mother's death into a half-life of drug-dealing boyfriends and shivery mornings, Meaghan Garvey finds salvation in dingy dive bars--and in being the stranger who is always moving on to somewhere else. When chance gifts her with a Cadillac with a blood-red paint job and matching leather seats, Garvey sets out on an amphetamine-fueled road trip through her native Midwest in the hopes of resolving the mysteries of her itinerant personal life through encounters with the places and characters that define her imagination: Water demons, lake camps, haunted houses, ship-wrecks, truckers on speed, roadside waitresses, wise-cracking barflies, and Jeffrey Epstein's personal exterminator. Part coming-of-age memoir and part 1940s film noir jail-break, Midwestern Death Trip combines the thrill of the open road amid a haunted landscape of backwoods diners and small-town bar tops. 

Midwestern Death Trip is a speed demon's encounter with the depths of American loneliness from the Hunter S. Thompson of the 2020s. 

Author photo of Meaghan Garvey, who sits at a red vinyl booth behind a red table. Her tattooed arms rest on the table. 

Meaghan Garvey made her bones as one of America's funniest and most astute music critics in her profiles and essays for The New York Times, Billboard, New York Magazine, County Highway, Pitchfork, and GQ. Meanwhile, her dark, unsparing, and wildly popular Gonzo Substack Scary Cool Sad Goodbye chronicles an itinerant personal life. Meaghan is a writer from Chicago. Midwestern Death Trip (2026) is her first book. 

Panamerica is a haven for literary fiction, nonfiction, and reportage that highlights distinctive contemporary writing and includes high and low subject matter and voices; deadpan and absurdist humor; the tragedies and triumphs of ordinary people living alongside their neighbors; and the ability to invent and inhabit new worlds.
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/clayton/meaghan-garvey-midwestern-death-trip/200030089372417
- **Event Categories**: art, literary-art, trips-adventures, entertainment, virtual
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 9

## Ticket Details


## Event venue details

- **city**: Clayton
- **state**: MO
- **country**: United States
- **location**: 399 N Euclid Ave, St. Louis, MO, United States, Missouri 63108
- **lat**: 38.6482
- **long**: -90.26125
- **full address**: 399 N Euclid Ave, St. Louis, MO, United States, Missouri 63108, 391 N Euclid Ave, St Louis, MO 63108-1245, United States, Clayton

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When and where is Meaghan Garvey - Midwestern Death Trip being held?
  - **A:** Meaghan Garvey - Midwestern Death Trip takes place on Thu, 18 Jun, 2026 at 06:00 pm to Thu, 18 Jun, 2026 at 06:00 pm at 399 N Euclid Ave, St. Louis, MO, United States, Missouri 63108, 391 N Euclid Ave, St Louis, MO 63108-1245, United States, Clayton.
- **Q**: Who is organizing Meaghan Garvey - Midwestern Death Trip?
  - **A:** Meaghan Garvey - Midwestern Death Trip is organized by Left Bank Books.
- **Q**: Who is this event for? Is it right for me?
  - **A:** Meaghan Garvey - Midwestern Death Trip is ideal for art lovers, collectors, creatives, and anyone inspired by visual arts, installations, and exhibitions. Whether you're a first-time attendee or a longtime enthusiast in Clayton, this event is thoughtfully curated to deliver a standout experience worth every moment. If Meaghan Garvey - Midwestern Death Trip sounds like your kind of event, don't wait - spots fill up fast.

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