An Evening with R.L Maizes in Conversation with Laura Pritchett
Schedule
Tue, 11 Nov, 2025 at 06:00 pm
UTC-07:00Location
232 Walnut St, Fort Collins, CO, United States, Colorado 80524 | Fort Collins, CO
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Join us at Old Firehouse Books as we welcome R.L Maizes to celebrate her latest release, A Complete Fiction! R.L will be in store on November 6th from 6:00-7:00pm, and she will be joined by Laura Pritchett for the evening to discuss both of their books. Books will be available for purchase either in store or online, but unfortunately we do not ship internationally. We can't wait to see you there!About A Complete Fiction:
With little evidence, would-be Colorado author P.J. Larkin serves a "nibble" on the trendy new social-media app Crave, accusing editor George Dunn of stealing the novel she submitted to him for publication. The nibble shoots to the top of the site's Popular Menu Items and before you can say "unpaid literary labor," George is embroiled in a scandal, his job and book deal in jeopardy. P.J.’s novel is snapped up amid the publicity, but has she revealed her sister Mia’s secrets in the book? Some diners on Crave think so, and now it’s P.J.’s turn to feel the public’s scorn. Told in the humorous vein of Where'd You Go, Bernadette?, A COMPLETE FICTION examines the very serious questions of who has a right to tell a story, and has cancel culture gone too far in our social media-drenched world?
About R.L Maizes:
R.L. Maizes's debut novel, Other People’s Pets, won the 2021 Colorado Book Award in Fiction and was a Library Journal Best Debut of Summer/Fall 2020. She is also the author of the short story collection, We Love Anderson Cooper. Her stories have aired on National Public Radio and can be found in Electric Literature’s Recommended Reading and in The Best Small Fictions 2020. Maizes’s essays have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, O Magazine, and McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, and have aired on NPR. She is a Virginia Center for the Creative Arts Fellow and the recipient of a Fellowship Grant from the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture for 2024-2025 for her novel-in-progress. She currently lives in Niwot, Colorado.
About Laura Pritchett:
Laura Pritchett’s fiction is rooted in the natural world—and celebrates the people who live close to it. She’s the author of seven novels, two nonfiction books, and editor of three anthologies, and her work has been the recipient of the PEN USA Award, the Milkweed National Fiction Prize, the WILLA, the High Plains Book Award, and several Colorado Book Awards. She’s also a freelance writer with publications in the LA Times, The New York Times, Orion, Terrain, Creative Nonfiction, and more. She directs the MFA in Nature Writing at Western Colorado University. www.laurapritchett.com
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