BOOK LAUNCH - GO HELP YOURSELF
Schedule
Thu, 04 Jun, 2026 at 06:00 pm
UTC-05:00Location
Octavia Books | New Orleans, LA
Please join us to celebrate the release of our 2024 Publishing Lab Prize winner Daniel Pope's debut novel, GO HELP YOURSELF (University of New Orleans Press, 2026)! Find us at Octavia Books in Uptown New Orleans, Thursday June 4th, at 6 PM, where Pope will be in conversation with Ben Fluet and reading excerpts from his book.Meet Corbin Moore, a twenty-something lapsed writer whose job at a struggling, off-brand spiritualist bookshop in Seattle meshes well with his regimen of smoking cannabis, binge eating, and doom-watching the news. That rut is interrupted by the return of his overbearing mother, Geraldine, a famous self-help guru who’s looking for a guinea pig. Add in the daily deluge of Corbin’s deep-seated insecurities and body dysmorphia, the prospect of reunion with still beloved ex-girlfriend Beth, and nonstop harassment by a murder of near-murderous crows, and you get a person most in need of help—but from whom, and how?
"A deadpan, mordant, thoroughly entertaining coming-of-age novel about what it takes to truly see oneself clearly. Go Help Yourself is a singular debut, and Daniel Pope is one to watch." — Kirstin Chen, New York Times bestselling author of COUNTERFEIT
"A spirited, rollicking picture of our culture's tangled messaging around real life, inner life and aspirational life — and one with a beautiful, beating heart. Daniel Pope has nailed the coming-of-age narrative for a moment when the old world is dying and the new struggles to be born — and he does it with preternatural grace and breathtaking insight into the pleasures and pains of embodied life under late capitalism." — Alexandra Kleeman, author of YOU TOO CAN HAVE A BODY LIKE MINE
Daniel Pope is a writer and musician from Seattle. His work has appeared in Narrative Magazine, Bellevue Literary Review, Gulf Coast Journal, and elsewhere. He currently lives in the UK, where he is a doctoral candidate at the University of Manchester's Centre for New Writing.
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Octavia Books, 511 Octavia St, New Orleans, LA 70115-2055, United States
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