# Event Details - **Event Name**: Meeting New People with author Daniel M. Lavery and Tracy Clark-Flory - **Event Start and End Date**: Fri, 07 Aug, 2026 at 06:00 pm – Fri, 07 Aug, 2026 at 07:30 pm - **Event Description**: Join Daniel M. Lavery, author of the national bestseller Women’s Hotel, in conversation with Tracy Clark-Flory on his latest novel.About this EventJoin Daniel M. Lavery, author of the national bestseller Women’s Hotel, in conversation with Tracy Clark-Flory on his latest novel, Meeting New People.Fifty-something, twice-divorced Barbara is at a crossroads. In the midst of her emotional uncertainty, she looks back on the dissolution of the nine best friendships of her life, in hopes of figuring out how to optimize finding her tenth, and hopefully last, best friend. Barbara is acerbic, opinionated, and wrong about many things, but she also doesn't shy away when she's at fault. Will she repeat the exciting mistakes of the past, or will she try a new kind of mistake for a change? “Daniel Lavery’s MEETING NEW PEOPLE is absolutely brilliant, full of the honesty and humor that made me fall in love with Laurie Colwin’s work. It weaves so many complex elements of the human condition (friendship! family! mortality! food!) but in the most unexpected and refreshing ways, until I found myself nearly crying with the desire to hold onto this book as long as I could.”—Kevin Wilson, New York Times-bestselling author of Run for the HillsAbout the SpeakersDaniel M. Lavery is a former Dear Prudence advice columnist at Slate, the cofounder of The Toast, and the New York Times bestselling author of Texts from Jane Eyre, The Merry Spinster, Something That May Shock and Discredit You, and Women’s Hotel. He also writes the popular newsletter The Chatner.  Tracy Clark-Flory is a journalist, essayist, and author of the memoir Want Me: A Sex Writer’s Journey into the Heart of Desire, an NPR Best Book of the Year. She has written for Cosmopolitan, The Cut, ELLE, Esquire, Marie Claire, Glamour, The Guardian, The Washington Post, WIRED, Women’s Health, and many others. Previously, she was a senior staff writer at Jezebel and a staff writer at Salon. She writes a weekly newsletter and co-hosts Dire Straights, a feminist podcast critiquing hetero love, sex, politics, and culture. Members: $5, Public: $15 - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/san-francisco/meeting-new-people-with-author-daniel-m-lavery-and-tracy-clark-flory/100001991796951299 - **Event Categories**: art, literary-art, meetups, health-wellness - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 0 - **Event Highlights**: - Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes - Location: Mechanics' Institute - Languages: English ## Ticket Details - **Ticket Price Range**: min: 7.18, max: 17.85, currency: USD ## Event venue details - **city**: San Francisco - **state**: CA - **country**: United States - **location**: Mechanics' Institute - **lat**: 37.7888616 - **long**: -122.4029759 - **full address**: Mechanics' Institute, 57 Post Street, San Francisco, United States ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: Meeting New People with author Daniel M. 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