Author event with Bonnie Garmus

Parnassus Books, Vanderbilt Libraries, and Dialog Vanderbilt are thrilled to present an evening with Bonnie Garmus, in conversation with Ann Patchett, for Bonnie's new book, Peck & Peck.

This is a ticketed event and will take place at 6:30 PM CT on Thursday, November 19th, in Langford Auditorium on the Vanderbilt Campus. Doors will open at 5:30 p.m.

Ticketing:

You must have a ticket to attend this event.

Each ticket is $33.00 and includes one general admission seat and a signed copy of Peck & Peck.

Please note, there will NOT be a signing line for personalizations/photos/books from home following this event.

Parking:

You may park in the 25th Ave. garage, which you can enter via 24th Ave. The address of the garage is 1404 25th Ave. S. 37212. Parking is available on levels 3 - 10.

MAP -- https://parnassusbooks.net/sites/default/files/2025-/25th%20Ave%20Garage%20.pdf

We always encourage ride share options.

Please note Parnassus cannot control pricing or validate parking for Vanderbilt lots. Other campus events can affect pricing. For questions or concerns, contact the VUMC Parking Permit Office at 615-936-1215.

About the book:

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of global sensation Lessons in Chemistry returns with an irresistible, delightful, and tender literary novel set in the publishing world of 1980s New York City about a young man whose life turns upside down when he is hired by the most prestigious, secretive, and dysfunctional poetry journal in the world: the renowned Peck & Peck.

Find originality. Reward creativity. Burn the rest.

It's 1982, New York City. Crime is on the rise, muggings are in the streets, and Batter Gray, recent college graduate with a skill that no one wants--an "ear" for poetry--is worried about his future. While all of his friends have real jobs, he's folding T-shirts at the Gap. As for love? No. Not unless you count Sallie Mae, the student loan tyrant. He hears from Sallie all the time.

But when Batter gets a dream job at Peck & Peck, the most prestigious poetry quarterly in the world, his life moves into the literary fast lane. Soon Batter is knee-deep in the secret war between the two Editors in Chief, the famous Peck brothers--twins and enemies--as well as being privy to the private affairs of their thirty-nine editors, whose professed mission is the same: Find originality. Reward creativity. Burn the rest.

And by burn, they mean incinerate. Because at Peck & Peck, "good" isn't good enough, "interesting" doesn't cut it, plagiarists aren't tolerated, and parolees run the mailroom. Still want to submit your poem? Go with God.

Welcome to another dazzling and unforgettable novel from Bonnie Garmus. If you loved Lessons in Chemistry, you will love Peck & Peck.

About the author:

Bonnie Garmus is a coffee-dependent American novelist. Her debut novel, Lessons in Chemistry, was a Good Morning America Book Club Pick, a Goodreads Choice Best Book of the Year, spent nearly two years on the New York Times bestseller list and was named by Times readers as one of the top 100 books of the 21st century. Translated into over forty languages, Lessons in Chemistry was honored with sixteen international literary awards and made into an Apple TV limited series. Peck & Peck is her second novel.