Cambridge Public Library to Welcome Kristen Arnett for Pride Month

On Wednesday, June 25, at 6 p.m., the Cambridge Public Library will host Kristen Arnett for a reading and discussion of her new novel, Stop Me If You’ve Heard This One, in celebration of Pride Month. Arnett will be joined in conversation by Jill McDonough, author of five books of poetry including American Treasure and Here All Night. This is a hybrid event and registration is required.

Stop Me If You’ve Heard This One follows Cherry Hendricks, a professional clown trying to make it in Orlando. Cherry’s pursuit of a professional and romantic relationship with Margot the Magnificent, an older lesbian magician, sparks a reckoning with what kind of clown- and person- she wants to be. Stop Me If You’ve Heard This One explores art, friendship, community, and identity with equal parts comedy and sincerity. 

“I think it’s important to get involved in whatever way you can in your community,” said Kristen Arnett.“Join library boards or volunteer with friends of the library, join book clubs, attend locally held readings or poke around at your independent bookstore and see what all is going on. Building community simply requires seeking those people and places out.”

Kristen Arnett is the author of the New York Times-bestselling novel Mostly Dead Things and the award-winning collection Felt in the Jaw. A queer writer based in Florida, she has written for The New York Times, Guernica, McSweeney’s, The Guardian, and elsewhere. She has been a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award and a winner of the Ninth Letter Literary Award in Fiction and the Coil Book Award.

This event is cosponsored by the Cambridge Public Library Foundation.

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