"Molly" in Harper's / Preorder / Event Dates
Details and data on my forthcoming memoir/essay, Molly (from Archway Editions, 12/5/2023) - including US tour dates, excerpts, and preorder
My next book, Molly, a memoir/essay, releasing 12/5 from Archway Editions.
An excerpt from the book, “blake.doc,” appears in the new November issue of Harper’s.
A previous except also appeared at The Paris Review.
“This shattering memoir from novelist Blake (Alice Knott) recounts his relationship with poet and memoirist Molly Brodak, who died by suicide in 2020, when she was 39.” - Publishers Weekly
The book is currently available for preorder through Archway Editions. Preorders are a huge help and greatly appreciated.
** MORE PREORDER INFO HERE **
This winter, I’ll be doing some events around the U.S. If you happen to be in the area for any of these, I’d be grateful for your support and conversation.
December 5 (Release Party) at Powerhouse Arena in Brooklyn
with Lynne TillmanDecember 8 at Greedy Reads in Baltimore
with Claire Donato and Juliet EscoriaDecember 12 at the Potter's House in Washington, DC
with Amber SparksDecember 14 at the Wrecking Bar in Atlanta
with Hugh Crawford & live music by Thousandaire
presented by A Cappella Books2024
January 8 at Franklin Park Reading Series in Brooklyn, with TBD
January 16 at Stories in Los Angeles, with Matthew Specktor
January 19 at Sunset Tavern in Seattle, with Richard Chiem & TBD(All events begin at 7 PM unless noted)
Advance Praise for Molly:
“The most immediate feeling of life I’ve ever had reading a book—a life lived at the desk and out in the world, a life of openness and secrets. ‘Make art for me,’ Molly wrote to Blake. ‘I will read it all.’ I breathed along with every word.”
—PATRICIA LOCKWOOD“How to praise a book of such wounded beauty as Blake Butler’s phenomenal Molly? The same way one would a life lost early: with love and sincerity and anger and wonder and lithely elegant and observant insights that remind us and inspire us, as Butler precisely does, to live and to love ourselves.”
—JOHN D’AGATA“Molly is a brilliant and brutal book. Blake Butler fearlessly takes on love and grief and the mysteries of this world and the next.”
—EMMA CLINE“A dark miracle—actual evidence that what we can never know, what we could never imagine about the one we love, is what binds us to them, beyond death.”
—MICHAEL W. CLUNE“I was gripped from the start by this memoir’s urgent honesty. Blake Butler turned a story that was almost unspeakable into a narrative at once brutal and loving, broken and solid.”
—CATHERINE LACEY
ARCs are available for interested reviewers. All media requests please inquire through @lcerand.
Thank you.