Erika Krouse with Erika T. Wurth Live at Tattered Cover Colfax
Schedule
Mon Mar 03 2025 at 06:00 pm to 08:00 pm
UTC-07:00Location
Tattered Cover Colfax | Denver, CO

About this Event
Join us for a great conversation with local authors Erika Krouse with Erika T. Wurth as they discuss Krouse's new book, Save Me, Stranger on Monday, March 3rd at 6 PM at our Colfax location!
Registration includes the following options:
- A signed copy of the book … OR
- A $5 Gift Card to Tattered Cover Book Store
We will have additional books for guests to purchase in store!
If you are unable to attend the event after purchasing a ticket, you are required to pick up your copy of the book (with proof of purchase from your event registration) within 7 days after the event date. If the book is not picked up by that date, you relinquish your copy to Tattered Cover Book Store.
ABOUT THE BOOK
From award-winning author Erika Krouse, a visceral, dazzling collection of stories set across the globe, about characters desperate for salvation.
Erika Krouse's Edgar Award-winning debut memoir, Tell Me Everything, was hailed by the New York Times Book Review as “lyrical, jarring, propulsive,” and the Washington Post as “mesmerizing on every page.” Now, with an electrifying new collection of stories, Save Me, Stranger, she further cements her reputation as an essential voice.
From the coldest town on earth to a sex shop in Bangkok to a haunted bed-and-breakfast in the Rockies, we meet characters at hinge moments. A runaway fights for her future while driving an ice-cream truck in gang territory; a cleaning woman investigates the teenager who died in her stead; a terminal patient in Alaska discovers new life in helping others die. This collection explores the borderlands between humor and hurt, community and self, and hope and despair, redefining what it means to survive.
Scalpel-sharp, unsparingly funny, and achingly wise, Krouse's expansive stories build to unforgettable emotional catharses, as these men and women must decide how far they are willing to go to save one another—and themselves.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Erika Krouse is the author of the memoir Tell Me Everything: The Story of a Private Investigation, winner of the Edgar Award, the Colorado Book Award, and the Housatonic Book Award; the story collections Save Me, Stranger and Come Up and See Me Sometime, a New York Times Notable Book and winner of the Patterson Fiction Prize; and the novel Contenders, a finalist for the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award. Krouse's fiction has been published in the New Yorker, The Atlantic, Ploughshares, One Story, and more. She teaches creative writing at the Lighthouse Writers Workshop and lives in Colorado.
ABOUT THE CONVERSATION PARTNER
Erika T. Wurth is the author of White Horse, a finalist for the 2022 Goodreads Choice Awards for Best Horror. She is a Kenyon Review Writers Workshop Scholar, attended the Tin House Summer Workshop, and is a narrative artist for the Meow Wolf Denver installation. She is of Apache/Chickasaw/Cherokee descent.
Where is it happening?
Tattered Cover Colfax, 2526 East Colfax Avenue, Denver, United StatesUSD 5.00 to USD 32.99
