Curtis Sittenfeld's SHOW DON'T TELL

Name: Curtis Sittenfeld's SHOW DON'T TELL
Start: 2025-04-17T19:00:00-05:00
Location: 314 Division St S, Northfield, MN, United States, Minnesota 55057

Schedule

Thu, 17 Apr, 2025 at 07:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

314 Division St S, Northfield, MN, United States, Minnesota 55057 | Northfield, MN

Content welcomes bestselling author Curtis Sittenfeld for a reading from her new collection of short stories SHOW DON'T TELL. Join us on Thursday, April 17th for a an evening with the author of ROMANTIC COMEDY, when she'll be in conversation with fellow author Will McGrath.
A funny, fiercely intelligent, and moving collection exploring marriage, friendship, fame, and artistic ambition—including a story that revisits the main character from Curtis Sittenfeld’s iconic novel PREP—from the New York Times bestselling author of ELIGABLE and ROMANTIC COMEDY
“[Sittenfeld’s] perfectly contained stories are a joy.”—Booklist, starred review
In her second story collection, Sittenfeld shows why she’s as beloved for her short fiction as she is for her novels. In these dazzling stories, she conjures up characters so real that they seem like old friends, laying bare the moments when their long held beliefs are overturned.
In “The Patron Saints of Middle Age,” a woman visits two friends she hasn’t seen since her divorce. In “A for Alone,” a married artist embarks on a creative project intended to disprove the so-called Mike Pence Rule, which suggests that women and men can’t spend time alone together without lusting after each other. And in “Lost but Not Forgotten,” Sittenfeld gives readers of her novel PREP a window into the world of her beloved character Lee Fiora, decades later, when Lee attends an alumni reunion at her boarding school.
Hilarious, thought-provoking, and full of tenderness for her characters, Sittenfeld’s stories peel back layer after layer of our inner lives, keeping us riveted to the page with her utterly distinctive voice.
Curtis Sittenfeld is the New York Times bestselling author of seven novels including Romantic Comedy, Rodham, Eligible, Prep, American Wife, and Sisterland, as well as the collection You Think It, I’ll Say It. Her novels have been translated into thirty languages. In addition, her short stories have appeared in The New Yorker, The Washington Post Magazine, Esquire, and The Best American Short Stories, for which she has also been the guest editor. Her nonfiction has appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, Time, and Vanity Fair, and on public radio’s This American Life. Her second short story collection Show Don’t Tell is forthcoming from Random House in February 2025.