Loki Takes Los Angeles: A Fantasy Book Launch

Join us at Village Well Books & Coffee for the launch of Kurt Baumeister's new novel Twilight of the Gods!

Noted authors Kurt Baumeister and Christine Sneed will engage in an energizing conversation about Baumeister's new novel, a tale of fallen gods and failing humanity, of love lost and found, of parents and children, magic and sex, art and lies, good, evil, and the end of Fate. This is the story of Loki--and Baumeister--in their own words.

About the book:

This is not your comic book trickster. Twilight of the Gods is satire and alternate history on an operatic, cinematic, and cosmic scale, with a cast that transcends time and space. The grinding of The Wheel of Fate is heard in Valhalla, as it is in Berlin and Boston. Can Odin’s many schemes be undone? Who can rewire the robotic nightmare of politics and write a brighter future for humanity? Only humanity’s champion, the long misunderstood, supposed force of evil, Loki. 'Tis is a tale of fallen gods and failing humanity, of love lost and found, of parents and children, magic and sex, art and lies, good, evil, and the end of Fate. This is the story of Loki. In his own words.

About the participants:

Kurt Baumeister’s writing has appeared in Salon, Guernica, Electric Literature, Rain Taxi, The Brooklyn Rail, The Rumpus, The Nervous Breakdown, The Weeklings, and other outlets. An acquisitions editor with 7.13 Books, Baumeister holds an MFA in creative writing from Emerson College. Twilight Of The Gods is his second novel.
Christine Sneed is the author of the novels Please Be Advised: A Novel in Memos, Little Known Facts, and Paris, He Said, and the story collections Portraits of a Few of the People I've Made Cry and The Virginity of Famous Men She is also the editor of the short fiction anthology Love in the Time of Time's Up. Her seventh book, Direct Sunlight, a short story collection, was published in June 2023.

Host or Publisher Village Well Books & Coffee