Austyn Wohlers presents Hothouse Bloom, featuring Bud Smith

P&T Knitwear is pleased to welcome Austyn Wohlers to celebrate and discuss her new book, Hothouse Bloom, which follows a young woman who renounces her painting career and all her human relationships to become one with her late grandfather’s apple orchard.

Austyn will be joined in conversation by Bud Smith, author . Along with a discussion and audience Q&A, Austyn will also sign copies of.

• This is a ticketed in-store event with limited amphitheater-style seating. Doors open at 6:30pm.
• Cost of a $5 general admission ticket can be applied towards your purchase of the featured event book or any product in our café the night of an event.
• Cost of a book bundle ticket reflects the total cost of the feature event book (MSRP plus tax). Each book bundle ticket guarantees ticket holders one (1) copy of the feature event book.
• The talk will be followed by a book signing. Books signed at P&T Knitwear events must be purchased from P&T Knitwear. If you would like a signed copy and cannot attend the event, we're happy to take your pre-order. We ship most places!
• We encourage all guests to wear masks.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Austyn Wohlers was born in Atlanta in 1996. Her first novel , called “the rare kind of debut that resets the bar for the field at large” by Blake Butler, will be published by Hub City Press on August 26th, 2025. Her fiction, poetry, translation, and criticism have appeared in The Baffler, Guernica, The Massachusetts Review, and elsewhere. In Baltimore, she ran the Near Future reading series. Also a musician, she plays in the band Tomato Flower and releases ambient music under her name.

ABOUT THE MODERATOR

Bud Smith works heavy construction and lives in Jersey City, NJ. He is the author of Teenager (Vintage 2022), Double Bird (Maudlin House, 2018), Dust Bunny City (Disorder Press, 2017), among others. His fiction has been published in The Paris Review, The Believer, The Baffler, and many others (collected below). He is also a creative writing teacher and editor.

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