Story is the Thing returns to Kepler’s on August 29
Looking to discover your new favorite author? Join Keplers for the return of the its signature reading series, Story is the Thing, to hear four Bay Area fiction authors read from their latest titles.
Starting at 6:00 pm there will be a reception with the authors, followed at 7:00 pm with readings, discussion and Q&A. Buy tickets online.
Featured authors
Katherine Lin is an attorney and writer based in the San Francisco Bay Area and a graduate of Northwestern University and Stanford Law School. You Can’t Stay Here Forever (June 2023) is her debut novel, and has been named a must-read book of summer by Good Morning America, People, and the San Francisco Chronicle.
A former science journalist, Claire Osketsky has written for Wired, Technology Review, The New York Times, and other periodicals. Claire is four-time recipient of the “Article of the Year” award from the American Society of Journalists and Authors. Her novel, Chouette, (November 2021), was longlisted for the 2022 Pen/Faulkner award for fiction and won the 2022 William Saroyan International Prize for Writing. She joins us to read from her latest critically acclaimed novel, Poor Deer (January 2024).
Susanne Pari is a novelist, journalist, essayist, book reviewer, and author interviewer whose writing focuses on stories of displacement and belonging, of identity and assimilation, of trauma and resilience. Her first novel, The Fortune Catcher, has been translated into six languages. She joins us to read from her latest novel, In the Time of Our History (January 2023).
Zach Williams is a Jones Lecturer in Fiction at Stanford University, where he previously held a Wallace Stegner Fellowship. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, and McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern. His story “Trial Run” was one of three that won The Paris Review a 2023 ASME Award for Fiction. His short story collection, Beautiful Days (June 2024), is hot off the press and was one of The New Yorker‘s Best Books We’ve Read in 2024 So Far.
