Cory Leadbeater, THE UPTOWN LOCAL

Join us at 6PM, ET, on Tuesday, June 18th for a conversation between Cory Leadbeater and Lynn Steger Strong in celebration of the publication The Uptown Local: Joy, Death, and Joan Didion: A Memoir.

Cory Leadbeater received his MFA in fiction from Columbia in 2014, where he was the recipient of the Jacob P. Waletzky Fellowship. Before that, he attended Trinity College, where he was the recipient of the Fred Pfeil Memorial Prize in Creative Writing, the John Curtis Underwood Memorial Prize in Poetry, and the Ruel Crompton Tuttle Prize in Scholarship. He lives in New Jersey with his family.

Lynn Steger Strong is the author of the novels Hold Still, Want, Flight, and the forthcoming The Float Test. She teaches writing at Columbia and Princeton Universities. 

Please note that we have seating for up to 24 people and will be seating guests first come, first served. There is standing room with some sightline obstruction for those who do not get a seat. Please note our store does not have a public restroom. 

Purchase of The Uptown Local is required to get into the signing line.