# Event Details - **Event Name**: Michelle Maryk, THE FOUND OBJECT SOCIETY: A Novel - **Event Start and End Date**: Thu, 12 Feb, 2026 at 06:00 pm – Thu, 12 Feb, 2026 at 07:00 pm - **Event Description**: In conversation with Cynthia Weiner.About this EventFREE. Registration Requested.Perfect for fans of time-travel fiction including Matt Haig’s The Midnight Library and Gareth Brown’s The Book of Doors.A fever dream of a novel with episodic, time-traveling chapters told from multiple points of view, The Found Object Society examines the depraved whims of the ultrarich and the breadth of unresolved trauma—all while asking how grief and the choices we make in its aftermath can change the course of our lives. Michelle Maryk’s wholly original and ambitious debut opens an impeccably wrought speculative world of greed, power, and destiny.Michelle Maryk graduated from Cornell University with a degree in English and attended the Yale Writer’s Workshop. For the better part of twenty-five years, she’s been a successful voiceover, on-camera commercial, and comedic actor. The Found Object Society is her debut novel.Cynthia Weiner has had a long career writing and teaching fiction. Her short stories have been published in Ploughshares, The Sun, and Epiphany, and her story “Boyfriends” was awarded a Pushcart Prize. She is also the assistant director of The Writers Studio in New York City. A Gorgeous Excitement, her first novel, was inspired by her upbringing on New York’s Upper East Side in the 1980s, and particularly by the notorious “Preppy M**der” of 1986. The novel was named a Best Book of 2025 by the New Yorker, Kirkus Reviews, and Oprah Daily. Weiner now lives in New York’s Hudson Valley. https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events9/banners/e2f76050-d80e-11f0-965b-ab1dfd503d60-rimg-w1200-h371-dc2f302f-gmir.jpg https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events5/banners/e337c4b0-d80e-11f0-acca-272cf2c95e55-rimg-w1200-h371-dc141518-gmir.jpg https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events4/banners/e37b3650-d80e-11f0-a4f1-ab89ef198835-rimg-w1200-h371-dc020304-gmir.jpg - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/rhinebeck/michelle-maryk-the-found-object-society-a-novel/100001977102375427 - **Event Categories**: art, workshops, literary-art, theatre, comedy, entertainment - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 0 ## Ticket Details - **Ticket Price Range**: min: 0, max: 0, currency: USD ## Event venue details - **city**: Rhinebeck - **state**: NY - **country**: United States - **location**: Oblong Books [Rhinebeck] - **lat**: 41.9278025 - **long**: -73.9120231 - **full address**: Oblong Books [Rhinebeck], 6422 Montgomery Street, Rhinebeck, United States ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: Michelle Maryk, THE FOUND OBJECT SOCIETY: A Novel - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events5/banners/8e3b7036e0498ba9edb1aaf35bb10ea253d7aaf734da81879e2e8a164bb6265f-rimg-w1200-h600-dc13342f-gmir.jpg?v=1765621892 ## FAQs - **Q**: When and where is Michelle Maryk, THE FOUND OBJECT SOCIETY: A Novel being held? - **A:** Michelle Maryk, THE FOUND OBJECT SOCIETY: A Novel takes place on Thu, 12 Feb, 2026 at 06:00 pm to Thu, 12 Feb, 2026 at 07:00 pm at Oblong Books [Rhinebeck], 6422 Montgomery Street, Rhinebeck, United States. - **Q**: Who is organizing Michelle Maryk, THE FOUND OBJECT SOCIETY: A Novel? - **A:** Michelle Maryk, THE FOUND OBJECT SOCIETY: A Novel is organized by Oblong Books. - **Q**: Who is this event for? 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