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I Miss You When I Blink: Discussion with Mary Laura Philpott and Curtis Sittenfeld

    Join us as Author Mary Laura Philpott engages in a reading and discussion with Curtis Sittenfeld of her new book I Miss You When I Blink.    Scout & Cellar Wine will also be here from 6:30-7:30P for a complimentary wine tasting for all attendees! Come early and enjoy their clean-crafted wines before we sit down with Mary Laura!    I Miss You When I Blink is Mary Laura Philpott’s funny, poignant debut memoir-in-essays about the highs and lows of perfectionism, the conflicting pressures of modern womanhood, and the challenge of reinventing yourself without blowing up your whole life. It was named to the #1 spot on the Indie Next List by booksellers nationwide and chosen as a best or most anticipated book of 2019 by Esquire, Newsweek, BuzzFeed, theSkimm, Town & Country, Bustle, The Millions and the Chicago Review of Books.Real Simple called it “the one book you should read right now.” Get a short snippet of it in The New York Times, read a review in The Washington Post, or listen to a conversation about it on NPR.   Biography Mary Laura Philpott is an essayist whose writing appears in publications including The New York Times, The Paris Review,The Washington Post,O The Oprah Magazine, and others. She’s also the book enthusiast at large for Nashville’s indie bookstore Parnassus Books and an Emmy-winning co-host of A Word on Words on Nashville Public Television. I Miss You When I Blink is her debut memoir-in-essays.   Curtis Sittenfeld is the bestselling author of five novels: Prep, The Man of My Dreams, American Wife, Sisterland, and Eligible. Her first story collection, You Think It, I’ll Say It, was published in 2018 and picked for Reese Witherspoon’s Book Club. Her books have been selected by The New York Times, Time, Entertainment Weekly, and People for their “Ten Best Books of the Year” lists, optioned for television and film, and translated into thirty languages. Her short stories have appeared in The New Yorker, The Washington Post, and Esquire, and her non-fiction has appeared in The New York Times, Time, Vanity Fair, The Atlantic, Slate, and on “This American Life.” A graduate of Stanford University and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, Curtis has interviewed Michelle Obama for Time; appeared as a guest on NPR’s “Fresh Air,” CBS’s “Early Show,” and PBS’s Newshour; and twice been a strangely easy “Jeopardy!” answer.

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    Join us as Author Mary Laura Philpott engages in a reading and discussion with Curtis Sittenfeld of her new book I Miss You When I Blink. 
     
    Scout & Cellar Wine will also be here from 6:30-7:30P for a complimentary wine tasting for all attendees! Come early and enjoy their clean-crafted wines before we sit down with Mary Laura! 
     
    I Miss You When I Blink is Mary Laura Philpott’s funny, poignant debut memoir-in-essays about the highs and lows of perfectionism, the conflicting pressures of modern womanhood, and the challenge of reinventing yourself without blowing up your whole life. It was named to the #1 spot on the Indie Next List by booksellers nationwide and chosen as a best or most anticipated book of 2019 by Esquire, Newsweek, BuzzFeed, theSkimm, Town & Country, Bustle, The Millions and the Chicago Review of Books.Real Simple called it “the one book you should read right now.” Get a short snippet of it in The New York Times, read a review in The Washington Post, or listen to a conversation about it on NPR.
     
    Biography Mary Laura Philpott is an essayist whose writing appears in publications including The New York Times, The Paris Review,The Washington Post,O The Oprah Magazine, and others. She’s also the book enthusiast at large for Nashville’s indie bookstore Parnassus Books and an Emmy-winning co-host of A Word on Words on Nashville Public Television. I Miss You When I Blink is her debut memoir-in-essays.
     
    Curtis Sittenfeld is the bestselling author of five novels: Prep, The Man of My Dreams, American Wife, Sisterland, and Eligible. Her first story collection, You Think It, I’ll Say It, was published in 2018 and picked for Reese Witherspoon’s Book Club. Her books have been selected by The New York Times, Time, Entertainment Weekly, and People for their “Ten Best Books of the Year” lists, optioned for television and film, and translated into thirty languages. Her short stories have appeared in The New Yorker, The Washington Post, and Esquire, and her non-fiction has appeared in The New York Times, Time, Vanity Fair, The Atlantic, Slate, and on “This American Life.” A graduate of Stanford University and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, Curtis has interviewed Michelle Obama for Time; appeared as a guest on NPR’s “Fresh Air,” CBS’s “Early Show,” and PBS’s Newshour; and twice been a strangely easy “Jeopardy!” answer.