Wesley Straton at The Rockwell Place

Schedule

Tue Jun 28 2022 at 07:00 pm to 08:00 pm

Location

Rockwell Place | Brooklyn, NY

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Book Launch: Wesley Straton presents The Bartender's Cure with Sammi Katz
About this Event

Join Greenlight Bookstore at The Rockwell Place cocktail bar to celebrate the launch of Wesley Straton's The Bartender's Cure, a fiercely relatable debut novel about an aspiring bartender at the perfect neighborhood bar, filled with cocktail recipes and bartending tips and tricks. Straton will be in conversation with writer, bartender, and mixologist, Sammi Katz. A curated list of classic cocktails meaningful to the novel will be served at the event.

About The Bartender's Cure:

Samantha Fisher definitely does not want to be a bartender. But after a breakup and breakdown in San Francisco, she decides to defer law school for a year to move to New York, crashing on her best friend’s couch. When she is offered a job at Joe’s Apothecary, a beloved neighborhood bar in Brooklyn, she tells herself it’s only temporary.

As Sam learns more about bartending and gets to know the service industry lifers and loyal regulars at Joe’s, she is increasingly seduced by her new job. She finds acceptance in her tight-knit community and even begins a new relationship. But as the year draws to a close, Sam is increasingly pulled between the life she thought she wanted and the possibility of a different kind of future. When destructive cycles from her past threaten to consume her again, Sam must decide how much she’s willing to let go of to finally belong.

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Wesley Straton is a writer and bartender based in Brooklyn. She writes fiction about found families, alienation, and how where we live shapes who we are. She studied fiction at Brooklyn College, where she received the Himan Brown Creative Writing Award and served as an editor for the Brooklyn Review. Her fiction has appeared in Glimmer Train and has been shortlisted for the Disquiet Literary Prize, and she has written about international bar culture for Roads & Kingdoms, GQ, and Difford’s Guide. The Bartender’s Cure is her debut.

SAMMI KATZ is a writer and bartender from New York City. She loves sharing her enthusiasm for all things cocktails, and is always up for a lively debate about the appropriate garnish for a Last Word. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Daily Beast and she is the creator of the blog, A Girl’s Guide to Drinking Alone. Sammi is the author of the forthcoming book, Cocktails in Color, to be published in the fall.

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Rockwell Place, 31 Rockwell Place, Brooklyn, United States

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