Lore Segal discusses LADIES' LUNCH at B&N Union Square

**PLEASE BE AWARE THAT THESE GUIDELINES ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE DUE TO CHANGING COVID-19 REQUIREMENTS**

Join Barnes & Noble - Union Square on Thursday, October 5th as we welcome Pulitzer Prize finalist Lore Segal to discuss her latest release, LADIES' LUNCH! Lore's new collection of short stories features a group of aging friends who have lunched together for over 40 years.

Lore will be in conversation with author and critic Vivian Gornick.

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**If you are not vaccinated, masks are strongly recommended.**

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TICKETING INFORMATION

• Book Admission - $20.73 (Admission + one copy of LADIES' LUNCH+ 5-cent bag fee): **LIMITED QUANTITY AVAILABLE**: A ticket PER PERSON includes:

• One copy of LADIES' LUNCH(out 9/26/23).
• Admission to the event space and signing line with Lore Segal & Vivian Gornick.

• $5 Gift Card Admission - $5.00 (Admission + one $5 B&N Gift Card): **LIMITED QUANTITY AVAILABLE**: A ticket PER PERSON includes:

• One $5 B&N Gift Card.

• Admission to the event space and signing line with Lore Segal & Vivian Gornick.

• Photos with Lore will be allowed at the event. A B&N staff member will be on hand to take your photo.

• Lore will be signing and personalizing copies of LADIES' LUNCH.

• Due to COVID-19, masks are strongly recommended.

• Any gifts for the author will be collected prior to the signing line.

• Due to health and safety and space limitations, those without a ticket will not be permitted into the event space.

• Please arrive by 7:00 PM in order to secure your seat in the event space. Late arrivals may only have access to standing room and may not have the opportunity to meet the author.

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ABOUT LADIES' LUNCH:

From the master of the short short comes a collection of 16 new stories featuring old friends who have loved and lunched together for over 40 years. These erudite, sharp-minded nonagenarians offer startling insights into friendship, family and aging.

Can the group organize a visit to one of their number in her new, and detested, assisted living situation? Is this a fabulous party with old friends, or a funeral reception? And does who was sleeping with whom, way back when, still matter?

In story after story, Segal's voice is always hilarious and urbane, heartbreaking and profound, keen and utterly unsentimental, as she tackles aging's affronts..

ABOUT LORE SEGAL:

Lore Segal is the author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist Shakespeare's Kitchen, as well as the novels Half the Kingdom, Lucinella, Other People's Houses, Her First American and the collection The Journal I Did Not Keep. She is the recipient of the American Academy Arts and Letters Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, The O'Henry Prize and the Harold U. Ribalow Prize. She has written for The New Yorker, The New York Times, Harper's Magazine, The New Republic, and numerous other publications. In 2023, Segal was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She lives and works in New York City.