Book Club Night at Wine on Main: The Plot by Jean Hanff Korelitz

Schedule

Wed Sep 25 2024 at 06:30 pm to 08:00 pm

Location

9 North Main Street, Concord, NH, United States, New Hampshire 03301 | Concord, NH

Did you know that Concord, NH is hosting its first Book Festival this October? There will be city-wide book themed events on Friday October 4 and Saturday October 5, including inaugural keynote speaker, Jean Hanff Korelitz. For our September book club, we'll be reading Korelitz's acclaimed novel The Plot. Local author and writer Jocelyn Winn will be here to lead us in a guided discussion... and we'll drink wine inspired by the book and enjoy light snacks, of course.
Tickets are $30pp and this event is limited to 20 people. Sign-up below:
About Jean Hanff Korelitz:
Jean Hanff Korelitz is the author of nine novels, including The Sequel (to The Plot), coming out 1 October 2024. The best-selling New York City-based novelist is also this year's inaugural keynote speaker for the NH Book Festival. This premier cultural event hosts 40+ nationally recognized authors for a free, all-day festival of panels, interviews, and book signings in downtown Concord. Korelitz will appear at The Capitol Center for the Arts on Friday, 4 October, at 7 p.m. For more information, please visit the festival website here [https://www.nhbookfestival.org/schedule].
About The Plot:
Jean Hanff Korelitz’s The Plot is a psychologically suspenseful novel about a story too good not to steal, and the writer who steals it.
Jacob Finch Bonner was once a promising young novelist with a respectably published first book. Today, he’s teaching in a third-rate MFA program and struggling to maintain what’s left of his self-respect; he hasn’t written—let alone published—anything decent in years. When Evan Parker, his most arrogant student, announces he doesn’t need Jake’s help because the plot of his book in progress is a sure thing, Jake is prepared to dismiss the boast as typical amateur narcissism. But then . . . he hears the plot.
Jake returns to the downward trajectory of his own career and braces himself for the supernova publication of Evan Parker’s first novel: but it never comes. When he discovers that his former student has died, presumably without ever completing his book, Jake does what any self-respecting writer would do with a story like that—a story that absolutely needs to be told.
In a few short years, all of Evan Parker’s predictions have come true, but Jake is the author enjoying the wave. He is wealthy, famous, praised and read all over the world. But at the height of his glorious new life, an e-mail arrives, the first salvo in a terrifying, anonymous campaign: You are a thief, it says.
As Jake struggles to understand his antagonist and hide the truth from his readers and his publishers, he begins to learn more about his late student, and what he discovers both amazes and terrifies him. Who was Evan Parker, and how did he get the idea for his “sure thing” of a novel? What is the real story behind the plot, and who stole it from whom?
About Jocelyn Winn:
Jocelyn Winn is a Concord-based freelance writer and founder of The Eleventh Letter editorial services (https://theeleventhletter.com), as well as the associate nonfiction editor for The Maine Review. She holds an MFA in writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts and writes toward a universal magic, personal intuition, and strong affinity for signs, especially the number 11. She is at work on both a memoir in essay and a craft book on synchronicity. Her recent work can be found in QSR Magazine, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Past Ten, Eratio, The Waterwheel Review as a Pushcart Prize nominee, and Fourth Genre as a Steinberg Memorial Essay Prize finalist.

Where is it happening?

9 North Main Street, Concord, NH, United States, New Hampshire 03301

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Host or Publisher Wine on Main

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