Author Andrea Bartz on thrillers and AI with Paul Bradley Carr

Andrea Bartz is best known for her propulsive, bestselling thrillers including her most recent - The Last Ferry Out () - in which a woman who travels to a remote, hurricane-damaged island to investigate the mysterious death of her fiancée.

BUT recently Andrea has become celebrated for her role as lead plaintiff in the Bartz vs Anthropic class action suit which secured a $1.5bn settlement from AI giant Anthropic over the theft of authors' work.

The settlement is set to become official during a final court hearing in San Francisco in May -- and we're delighted to announce that Andrea will be joining us that same week for an exclusive in-store event, in conversation with fellow thriller writer (and Best Bookstore co-owner) Paul Bradley Carr. They'll discuss Andrea's latest book, the world of thriller writing and AI, and of course the groundbreaking Anthropic settlement. You won't want to miss this one.

The event is free, but RSVPs are encouraged so we can accomodate everyone. Seating is limited so please arrive on time to secure your seat. Latecomers cannot be admitted.

About the Book:
On a trip to the tropical island where her fiancée died, a young woman begins to suspect the death was no accident—and the killer’s closer than she could’ve imagined—in this “unputdownable” thriller from “a master of suspense” (Elle).
“This book is Bartz at her best: twisty, shocking, and riveting—with a narrator you won’t stop rooting for.”—Laura Dave, #1 bestselling author of The Last Thing He Told Me
When Abby steps foot on Isla Colel, she isn’t sure what—if anything—she’ll find. She only knows that she needs to see the place where her fiancée, Eszter, died to try and make sense of the tragic accident.
The island is nothing like Abby expected: Though it was once a bustling tourist hub, a hurricane has left it a shell of its former self, with only a handful of residents remaining. Even the once-daily ferry to the mainland now runs every week or so.
There, Abby befriends an alluring group of expats, but her sense of unease surges when one of them says he knows the truth about Eszter’s final days. Before he can tell her more, though, he vanishes from the island. Hours turn to days with no sign of him, and the others are chillingly cavalier about his disappearance.
As her quest for the truth unearths dark secrets, shady pasts, and a web of lies, Abby grows more determined than ever to find out what happened to the love of her life. And the deeper she gets in the close-knit expat community, the more she suspects that one of them is Eszter’s killer—and will do anything to keep the truth buried. But will Abby discover who it is before she becomes the island’s next victim?

About the Speakers:

Andrea Bartz is a journalist and the New York Times bestselling author of the Reese’s Book Club pick We Were Never Here, The Last Ferry Out, The Spare Room, The Lost Night, and The Herd. Her thrillers have been optioned by Netflix, Hulu, and other production companies, and more than half a million copies of her books have been sold worldwide. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Marie Claire, Vogue, and many other outlets, and she's held editorial positions at Glamour, Psychology Today, and Self, among other publications. She was also a lead plaintiff in the landmark class-action lawsuit Bartz v. Anthropic, which was the first major win for creatives against an AI company as well as the largest copyright recovery in history. She lives with her girlfriend and pets in Brooklyn and the Hudson Valley.

Paul Bradley Carr is a former journalist turned bestselling thriller writer, most recently of The Confessions. He has also written three memoirs about his adventures in and around Silicon Valley. He was the Silicon Valley columnist for The Guardian, senior editor at TechCrunch, cofounder of PandoDaily, and founder and editor-in-chief of the infamous NSFWCORP in Las Vegas. His writing has also appeared in The Wall Street Journal, HuffPost, National Geographic, and much more.

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