# Event Details - **Event Name**: Reading & Conversation: M.L. RIO "Hot Wax" - **Event Start and End Date**: Thu, 17 Sep, 2026 at 07:00 pm – Thu, 17 Sep, 2026 at 08:00 pm (-04:00) - **Event Description**: We are very excited to host M.L. Rio to celebrate the paperback edition of Hot Wax, her newest electrifying and visceral thriller.About this EventWe are very excited to host M.L. Rio to celebrate the paperback edition of Hot Wax, her newest elecrtifying and visceral thriller. Part road trip story, part rock band on tour, part Airstream full of vintage clothes and romantic entanglement with a pair of nomads.“By the end of this feverishly-composed rock 'n' roll masterpiece, you'll be on your feet shouting for an encore.” —Layne Fargo, bestselling author of The FavoritesThe new novel from the bestselling author of If We Were Villains and Graveyard Shift—a vivid and immersive tale of one woman’s reckless mission to make sense of the events that shattered her childhood and made her who she is.Summer, 1989: ten-year-old Suzanne is drawn like a magnet to her father’s forbidden world of electric guitars and tricked-out cars. When her mother remarries, she jumps at the chance to tag along on the concert tour that just might be Gil and the Kills’ wild ride to glory. But fame has sharper fangs than anybody realized, and as the band blazes up the charts, internal power struggles set Gil and his group on a collision course destined for a bloody reckoning—one shrouded in mystery and lore for decades to come.The only witness to a desperate act of violence, Suzanne spends the next twenty-nine years trying to disappear. She trades the music and mayhem of her youth for the quiet of the suburbs and the company of her mild-mannered husband Rob. But when her father’s sudden death resurrects the troubled past she tried so hard to bury, she leaves it all behind and hits the road in search of answers. Hitching her fate and Gil’s beloved car to two vagabonds who call an old Airstream trailer home, she finds everything she thought she’d lost forever: desire, adventure, and the woman she once wanted to be. But Rob refuses to let her go. Determined to bring her back where she belongs, he chases her across the country—and drives her to a desperation all her own.Drenched in knock-down drag-out rock and roll, Hot Wax is a raucous, breakneck ride to hell and back—where getting lost might be the only way to find yourself and save your soul.M.L. RIO has been an actor, a bookseller, an academic, and a music writer. She holds an MA in Shakespeare studies and a PhD in English literature. She is the author of the internationally bestselling novel If We Were Villains, the USA TODAY bestselling novella Graveyard Shift, and Hot Wax. She never stays in one place for long, but keeps her books, records, and four-legged sidekick in south Philadelphia. https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events10/banners/c250ab10-a5bb-11f1-8990-5d04d231a2dd-rimg-w1200-h628-dc98c8c8-gmir.jpg - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/pittsburgh/reading-and-conversation-ml-rio-hot-wax/100001997913552217 - **Event Categories**: art, literary-art, entertainment, music, trips-adventures, concerts, workshops, theatre - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 1 - **Event Highlights**: - Duration: 1 hour - Location: White Whale Bookstore - Languages: English ## Ticket Details - **Ticket Price Range**: min: 0, max: 0, currency: USD ## Event venue details - **city**: Pittsburgh - **state**: PA - **country**: United States - **location**: White Whale Bookstore - **lat**: 40.461023 - **long**: -79.9482606 - **full address**: White Whale Bookstore, 4754 Liberty Avenue, Pittsburgh, United States ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: Reading & Conversation: M.L. RIO "Hot Wax" - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events5/banners/c4e851579a6f769da3122e39c8b207fa6a8fd18fd2d2c88b9cf739999d249645-rimg-w1200-h628-dc98c8c8-gmir.jpg?v=1786793609 ## FAQs - **Q**: When and where is Reading & Conversation: M.L. RIO "Hot Wax" being held? - **A:** Reading & Conversation: M.L. RIO "Hot Wax" takes place on Thu, 17 Sep, 2026 at 07:00 pm to Thu, 17 Sep, 2026 at 08:00 pm at White Whale Bookstore, 4754 Liberty Avenue, Pittsburgh, United States. - **Q**: Who is organizing Reading & Conversation: M.L. RIO "Hot Wax"? - **A:** Reading & Conversation: M.L. RIO "Hot Wax" is organized by White Whale Bookstore. - **Q**: Who is this event for? Is it right for me? - **A:** Reading & Conversation: M.L. RIO "Hot Wax" is ideal for art lovers, collectors, creatives, and anyone inspired by visual arts, installations, and exhibitions. 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