Jamie Quatro in-conversation w/ James Kimbrell w/ TWO-STEP DEVIL
Schedule
Thu Nov 07 2024 at 06:30 pm to 07:30 pm
UTC-05:00Location
1123 Thomasville Road, Tallahassee, FL, United States, Florida 32303 | Tallahassee, FL
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“Quatro reckons with faith and the nature of evil in her daring and disturbing latest . . . It’s hard to turn away from Quatro’s electrifying vision.”—Publishers WeeklyYou won't want to miss this event! Join us for a striking conversation between Jamie Quatro and James Kimbrell as they discuss Quatro's latest release Two-Step Devil!
About Two-Step Devil:
In 2014, in Lookout Mountain, Alabama, the Prophet—a seventy-year-old man who paints his visions—lives off the grid in a cabin near the Georgia border. While scrounging for materials at the local scrapyard, the Prophet sees a car pull up to an abandoned gas station. In the back seat is a teenage girl with zip ties on her wrists, a girl he realizes he must rescue from her current life. Her name is Michael, and the Prophet feels certain that she is a messenger sent by God to take his end-time warnings to the White House. Michael finds herself in the Prophet’s remote, art-filled cabin, and as their uncertain dynamic evolves into tender friendship, she is offered a surprising opportunity to escape her past—and perhaps change her future.
Moving through the worlds of the Prophet, the girl, and a beguiling devil figure who dances in the corner of their lives, Two-Step Devil is a propulsive, philosophical examination of fate and faith that dares to ask what salvation, if any, can be found in our modern world.
About Jamie Quatro:
Jamie Quatro is the New York Times Notable author of I Want to Show You More, a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award and the National Book Critics Circle’s John Leonard Prize, and Fire Sermon, a Book of the Year for the Economist, San Francisco Chronicle, LitHub, Bloomberg, and the Times Literary Supplement. Quatro’s fiction has appeared in the New Yorker, Paris Review, New York Review of Books and Ploughshares. She is the recipient of fellowships from MacDowell, Yaddo, and Maison Dora Maar, and teaches in the Sewanee School of Letters MFA program. Quatro lives with her family in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
About James Kimbrell:
James Kimbrell, Professor, Ph.D., University of Missouri-Columbia, MFA, University of Virginia, M.A., Center for Writers at the University of Southern Mississippi, B.A. Millsaps College, specializes in poetry. His poems, reviews and translations have appeared in anthologies such as Best American Poetry and The Pushcart Prize, and in magazines such as Poetry, Field, Fence, Ploughshares, and The Nation. He is the author of The Gatehouse Heaven, My Psychic, and Smote, all from Sarabande Books.
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1123 Thomasville Road, Tallahassee, FL, United States, Florida 32303Event Location & Nearby Stays:
