Hemingway Center Reading Series and The Cabin present: Kristen Arnett and Stephanie Reents

Schedule

Thu, 09 Oct, 2025 at 07:00 pm

UTC-06:00

Location

The Linen Building | Boise, ID

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The Hemingway Center Reading Series together with The Cabin present Kristen Arnett , the author of The New York times bestelling novel, "Mostly Dead Things," and Stephanie Reents, author of "The Kissing List," an Editors’ Choice in The New York Times Book Review. You can purchase tickets here.

Event Details
7 PM
Thursday, October 9, 2025
The Linen Building

About Kristen Arnett
Kristen Arnett, a queer Floridian author, published three novels, including "Stop Me If You've Heard this One" (Riverhead Books, 2025), longlisted for the Comedy Women in Print Prize; "With Teeth" (Riverhead Books, 2021), a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award in Fiction; and the New York Times bestelling debut "Mostly Dead Things," also a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award in fiction and shortlisted for the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award. Arnett runs the substack "Dad Lessons." Her work appears in The New York Times, TIME, Vogue, The Cut, Oprah Magazine, PBS Newshour, The Guardian, Salon, The Washington Post and elsewhere. Riverhead Books will publish her upcoming collection of short fiction, "Party at the End of the World." She holds a Masters in Library and Information Science from Florida State University and lives in Orlando, Florida.

About Stephanie Reents
Stephanie Reents, authored "The Kissing List," a collection of stories and an Editors’ Choice in The New York Times Book Review, and "I Meant to K*ll Ye," a biblio-memoir chronicling her journey into the strange void at the heart of Cormac McCarthy’s "Blood Meridian." She will publish her new book, "We Loved to Run," with Hogarth/Penguin Random House in August 2025. Reents received a BA from Amherst College, where she ran on the cross country team all four years; a BA from the University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar; and an MFA from the University of Arizona. A former Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, she twice received an O. Henry Prize for her short fiction.
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The Linen Building, 1402 W Grove St ,Boise, Idaho, United States

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