Tim Sandlin with Jonathan Evison — 'Lit'

Third Place Books welcomes author Tim Sandlin to our Lake Forest Park store for a conversation about his new book, , a prescient and wonky story about a Wyoming man who finds himself at the center of a culture clash—and a M**der mystery—after rescuing a troublesome author from a book-burning. Tim will be joined in conversation by author Jonathan Evison.

"Sharp, hilarious, and a little unhinged. (Lit) skewers small-town quirks, literary pretension, and human frailty in equal measure. I loved it." —Tod Goldberg, author of Gangsters Don't Die

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Tim Sandlin is back with a deliciously subversive take on a "cozy" mystery that deftly, shrewdly and humorously reflects our turbulent times.

In a small town in the woods of northwest Wyoming, Kasey Cobb lives alone in a cabin, runs a drive-through coffee kiosk, and hangs out at the library, reading the classics. He's the least-likely guy to become the center of a culture clash... and death. Yet that's what happens when he strays past a book-bonfire, ignited by a pastor and his hapless followers, and inadvertently rescues a self-important (drunk) author from being burned with his obscure novel.

From that moment on, Kasey's life becomes a whirlwind that sweeps up a laconic lawman, a pissed off grizzly bear, a relentless podcaster, a sensuous librarian obsessed with death, a fierce female rancher and, most troublesome of all, a devious murderer. And yet, amidst the chaos, Kasey chases another shot at a lasting love, even if it might K*ll him.

Tim Sandlin has had: eleven published novels, three produced movie scripts, two books of columns. Roughly forty entry level jobs in Jackson Hole, including trail inventory, elk skinner, egg roll roller, gardener for the Rockefellers, pizza parlor manager, dishwasher many times, and lots more he has trouble remembering. Frequent reviewer for the New York Times Sunday Book Review, until he got fired for excessive empathy. Thirty-something years as director of the Jackson Hole Writers Conference; twenty-something years working for Jackson Hole Center for the Arts. Columnist for Huffington Post Canada. Awards: Prism Award, for accurate depiction of drug, alcohol, or tobacco use and addiction in a television movie, miniseries or dramatic special (people who knew him thirty years ago may find a certain irony in that one); Wyoming Governor's Arts Award. At the moment, he lives in relative obscurity with my family in Redmond, Washington.

Jonathan Evison is the author of the novels Small World; All About Lulu; West of Here; The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving; This Is Your Life, Harriet Chance!; Lawn Boy; and Legends of the North Cascades. He lives with his wife and family in Washington State.

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