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HOW TO COURT DISASTER Book Launch: Kate Blakinger in Conversation with Robin Black

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Date and Time

Monday, November 9, 2026, 7:00 PM until 9:00 PM

Event Contact(s)

Jen Kinney

Category

Readings/Signings

Registration Info

Registration is recommended

About this event

Join us to celebrate the publication of Kate Blakinger’s debut short story collection, How to Court Disaster, which won the Iowa Short Fiction Award. This event features a reading, a conversation moderated by Robin Black (author of Life Drawing), and a book signing.

"How to Court Disaster is a book of love stories," writes Peter Ho Davies, author of A Lie Someone Told You About Yourself. "Breathtaking, eye-opening, hair-raising love stories—not love as we usually encounter it in stories, but love among the ruins, love for the wounded and the wounding, love defined with searing wisdom as 'feeling safe even when you're not.'"

Number of People Who Will Attend

Everyone
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