Still the most fun literary event in town! Seersucker Live is part literary reading, part talk show, part cocktail party.
Join The Book Lady at Front Porch Improv for the return of the Seersucker crew, featuring 2 award-winning authors, Patricia Lockwood and Taylor Brown. Get your tickets here Front Porch Improv tix, and read on for more about the authors and Seersucker…
PATRICIA LOCKWOOD is the author of the novel No One Is Talking About This (Riverhead) which was a finalist for both the 2021 Booker Prize & also the Women's Prize for Fiction, plus the winner of the Dylan Thomas Prize and one of The New York Times Book Review’s Ten Best Books of 2021. Lockwood's previous work includes her memoir, Priestdaddy (Riverhead), which also made the list of the ten best books by The New York Times Book Review in 2017, and two poetry collections, Balloon Pop Outlaw Black and Motherland Fatherland Homelandsexuals, a New York Times Notable Book. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker, The New Republic, and the London Review of Books, where she is a contributing editor. She is also the recipient of the 2018 Thurber Prize for American Humor.
TAYLOR BROWN grew up on the Georgia coast. His work has appeared in a wide range of publications, including The New York Times, The Rumpus, Garden & Gun, Chautauqua, The North Carolina Literary Review, and many others. He is the recipient of a Montana Prize in Fiction, a three-time finalist for the Southern Book Prize, and was named the 2021 Georgia Author of the Year. He’s also been a finalist for the Press 53 Open Awards, Machigonne Fiction Contest, Wabash Prize in Fiction, Rick DeMarinis Short Story Contest, Dahany Fiction Prize, and Doris Betts Fiction Prize. He is the author of a short story collection, In the Season of Blood and Gold (Press 53), as well as five novels, all published by St. Martin's Press: Fallen Land , The River of Kings, Gods of Howl Mountain, Pride of Eden, and his newest novel in 2022, Wingwalkers.