Author Tour: Adam Gnade Book Reading

Books will be available onsite. Please reach out to [email protected] with any questions.

Join us for a special evening with author Adam Gnade as he shares selections from multiple titles in his body of work. Known for his raw and honest storytelling, Adam will read short pieces, open the floor for thoughtful discussion with the audience, and give a behind-the-scenes look into the life and process of a working writer.

Following the reading and conversation, books will be available for purchase and signing on-site—an opportunity to take home a personal connection to the words you hear. Whether you’re already familiar with his writing or discovering it for the first time, this event promises to be an intimate and engaging experience that celebrates literature, community, and dialogue.

ABOUT THE BOOKS

Adam Gnade’s (guh nah dee) work is released as a series of books and records that share characters and themes; the fiction writing continuing plot-lines left open by the self-described “talking songs” in an attempt to compile a vast, detailed, interconnected, personal history of contemporary American life.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Adam Gnade's work comes from the heart of summer and "the heart of Saturday night." It's a dirty, knocked-down America of truckstops and mall parking lots, water towers and grain silos, late-night conversation on porches, dark woods and fields, wild times in neon-lit cowboy bars or sun-lit apartment blocks where you feel like the last human on Earth. Spread across We Live Nowhere and Know No One, a connected series of novels and audio recordings of writing backed by noisy folk music (self-described as "talking songs"), his cast of reoccurring characters inhabits a world of loneliness on river docks at sundown, cattle towns and beach houses, vodka in the evening heat, sailor bars and bayside piers, bats in the dusk, the sound of distant freight trains, the clatter of BQE, failing industry, red brick tenements, ghost towns of factories, the Atlantic Seaboard or the Pacific Ocean as the end of the world, foggy San Francisco streets, morning skies over Brooklyn looking for the ghost of Lou Reed, punk songs on long Southern drives, country music radio in Texas desert, crumbling farmhouses in the weeds, good and ill, sweet and vile, all the truth.

Find his website here. And find his work at our shop here.

AGENDA

6:30 PM Doors open

7:00 PM Welcome and introduction

7:15 PM Adam takes stage

8:15 PM Final remarks

8:30 PM End + Shopping

ACCESIBILITY

Parking: Metered street parking is available (parallel parking) on Market St. Paid lots are available within a few blocks. The closest one is on 21st and Market St.

Entrance Access: Our front door is at street level and manually operated, accessible for wheelchairs and mobility aids. The rest of the block has sidewalks raised by five steps; however, the bike lane offers a step-free route down the block with minimal car traffic.

Restrooms: All-gender restrooms. Just like at home.

Communication: All staff on site speak English. There will be one Spanish speaking staff member. We welcome communication via translation apps (Google Translate is available). While we do not use ASL, we’re happy to communicate through apps or other tools that work for you.

Alcohol Policy: No alcohol will be served or permitted at this event.

Masks: Masks are encouraged and supplied.

Questions or Requests: Please contact us at [email protected] with any accessibility needs or questions.

Host or Publisher MATTER, Ltd.