Bambino Book Club Presents: Reading and Q&A with Lucas Schaefer

Bambino Book Club Presents: Reading and Q&A with Lucas Schaefer

On October 30, from 6 to 8 p.m., Bambino Book Club will host a reading and Q&A with local author Lucas Schaefer. Lucas will be in conversation with Sarah Orman about The Slip, a sprawling, perspective-bending novel of race, gender, and the transformative power of boxing set in Austin in the late ‘90s and early 2000s.

Lucas Schaefer's debut novel, The Slip, was published in June and is a finalist for the 2025 Kirkus Prize in fiction. His work has appeared in One Story, The Baffler, Southwest Review and elsewhere. He holds an MFA from the New Writers Project at UT-Austin. Lucas lives with his family in Austin.

You’re invited to order dinner and drinks on the patio. Bambino opens at 4:00 p.m., and happy hour is from 4-6:00 p.m.

Books will be available to purchase onsite from Austin’s own BookPeople.

Bambino Book Club is a literary series celebrating local books and authors with handmade events, pizza, wine and soft serve. Bambino Book Club is hosted and curated by Sarah Orman and Katie Bender, both Austin-based authors, readers, and pizza lovers who happen to be married to L'Oca d'Oro and Bambino . . . that is, to the owners of L'Oca d'Oro and Bambino, Adam Orman and Fiore Tedesco. (Hi, husbands!)

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