# Event Details - **Event Name**: Rowan Beaird + Jason Diamond: Tenderness - **Event Start and End Date**: Tue, 28 Jul, 2026 at 07:00 pm – Tue, 28 Jul, 2026 at 08:30 pm - **Event Description**: Join us for an event with author Rowan Beaird for a discussion of her new book TENDERNESS.About this EventModerating this discussion is notable writer Jason Diamond. This event will be hosted at the Strand at Columbus (SCA) at 420 Columbus Ave.Can’t make the event? ACCESSIBILITY:Strand Book Store is an ADA compliant venue. The event space is accessible via elevator. Please ask a Strand employee upon arrival for directions to accessible seating if preferred.ASL interpretation is available for this event by request only. Please reach out to our events team at events@strandbooks.com by July 14 to request.For further information on accessibility in this space, or to make a request, please contact events@strandbooks.com.--------------------------------------------------------------------“INTOXICATING...You’ll find yourself turning page after page, utterly swept up in the heady spell it casts.” —Megan Abbott, NEW YORK TIMES bestselling authorFrom the beloved author of The Divorcées comes a novel set in the 1970s during an island wedding, where the bride has recently left a sinister cult that might still be trailing herOn a remote island off the coast of Virginia, family and friends gather to celebrate the wedding of Shay O’Connor and Andrew Pruitt. From the moment the guests arrive, all they can whisper about is the bride, who recently left the headline-making cult Synanon. Why would someone like Shay, an Ivy League graduate with a wealthy, doting fiancée, join Synanon? And has she really escaped their grasp?Told from the interwoven perspectives of Shay’s brother William, her longtime friend Joel, and Shay herself, Tenderness is a slow-burn mystery that excavates dark family histories and romantic regrets. As the wedding day approaches, Joel and William pull at the loose threads of Shay’s story, and it becomes clear there is an even greater threat on the island than the secrets each character is keeping from one another.Set in the tinderbox of the 1970s, Tenderness is a lit match, bringing hidden truths to light and asking if we can ever see ourselves or the people we love for who they truly are.Photo credit: Faith KelseyRowan Beaird is the author of the novels Tenderness and The Divorcées. Her fiction has appeared in The Southern Review, Ploughshares, and Gulf Coast. She lives in Chicago with her husband and daughter. https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events2/banners/cef3f350-8a8a-11f1-b92e-41b584fdb3c9-rimg-w493-h740-dc2b2a2f-gmir.jpg Photo credit: Jeremy CohenJason Diamond is the author of Searching for John Hughes, The Sprawl and co-author of New York Nico's Guide to NYC (with Nicolas Heller). His work has been published by the New York Times, Esquire, The New Yorker, GQ, The Paris Review, and many other outlets. He publishes the newsletter The Melt, was born in Skokie, Illinois, and currently lives in Brooklyn with his wife and daughter. Kaplan’s Plot is his first novel. - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/new-york/rowan-beaird-jason-diamond-tenderness/100001991492890846 - **Event Categories**: art, literary-art, sports - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 0 - **Event Highlights**: - door_time: 2026-07-28T22:30:00Z - Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes - Location: The Strand - Languages: English ## Ticket Details - **Ticket Price Range**: min: 0, max: 35.65, currency: USD ## Event venue details - **city**: New York - **state**: NY - **country**: United States - **location**: The Strand - **lat**: 40.783776 - **long**: -73.9745324 - **full address**: The Strand, 450 Columbus Avenue, New York, United States ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: Rowan Beaird + Jason Diamond: Tenderness - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events4/banners/7c55743e16abbefd178ef7bb5fc6021565050118fd8f1994811c2dba15db3b1d-rimg-w1200-h628-dcffffff-gmir.png?v=1781324095 ## FAQs - **Q**: When and where is Rowan Beaird + Jason Diamond: Tenderness being held? - **A:** Rowan Beaird + Jason Diamond: Tenderness takes place on Tue, 28 Jul, 2026 at 07:00 pm to Tue, 28 Jul, 2026 at 08:30 pm at The Strand, 450 Columbus Avenue, New York, United States. - **Q**: Who is organizing Rowan Beaird + Jason Diamond: Tenderness? - **A:** Rowan Beaird + Jason Diamond: Tenderness is organized by The Strand Book Store. - **Q**: Who is this event for? 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