Authors on Tap: Julie Schumacher and Christie Tate

Please join us in store on Monday, May 18th at 7:00pm central to help celebrate Julie Schumacher and her new collection of short stories, Patient, Female. Julie will be in conversation with Christie Tate!

About Patient, Female:

From the New York Times bestselling author of Dear Committee Members, a collection of wryly funny stories about ordinary women--in all their complexity, fallibility, and humanity.

An unsuspecting couple is treated to a luxury vacation by their deceased neighbor. After begrudgingly agreeing to volunteer at a nursing home, a middle school girl gambles over games of bridge with elderly residents. A single mother struggles to understand the unique bond between her autistic son and his dying grandmother. Four friends experience decades of highs and lows as pawns in The Game of Life. A professional gynecology patient runs into a high school flame while at work, undressed, on the job. In this irreverent collection, celebrated novelist Julie Schumacher balances sorrow against laughter. Here, we experience story not only as narrative, but as syllabus and as board game. Each protagonist--ranging from girlhood to senescence--receives her own indelible voice as she navigates social blunders, generational misunderstandings, and the absurdity of the human experience. Exquisitely honest and expertly crafted, Patient, Female renders--with dark humor and wit--the foibles of human behavior and our endearing imperfections.

About Julie Schumacher:

Julie Schumacher is the author of a dozen books, including the national best-seller, Dear Committee Members, winner of the Thurber Prize for American Humor. She is the first woman to have won the Thurber Prize. Schumacher’s first published story, “Reunion,” was written to fulfill an undergraduate writing assignment (“tell a family tale”); it was reprinted in The Best American Short Stories 1983. Subsequent stories and essays were published in The Atlantic, The New York Times, MS, The Chronicle for Higher Education, Prize Stories: The O.Henry Awards, and other venues. Her first novel, The Body Is Water, was an ALA Notable Book of the Year and a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award. She has also published five novels for young adults and a satirical coloring book, Doodling for Academics. Schumacher lives in St. Paul and is a Regents Professor at the University of Minnesota, where she teaches in the Creative Writing Program and the Department of English. She has won multiple teaching awards and has been recognized as a “Scholar of the College.”

About Christie Tate:

Christie Tate is an author of two memoirs, including Group, which was a NYT bestseller and has been translated into 19 languages. Her second memoir, BFF, was named best nonfiction book of the year by Apple, Amazon, and elsewhere. Her essays have been nominated for Pushcart Prizes and have appeared in The New York Ttimes, Carve Magazine, The Los Angeles Review, and elsewhere. She has a Substack called In Praise of, and runs writing workshops through WriteTogether.

About this event:

This is a free, in person event and registration is required. Please click on the link below to register for free! Julie and Christie will be happy to sign/personalize copies of their books after the event! Can't make it to the event? Signed copies will be available in store and online with national shipping.

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