Joshua Corey THE LAST WORDS OF JACK RUBY

November 17 | In-Store | 6:00 PM

Joshua Corey, The Last Words of Jack Ruby

Join us for an evening with Joshua Corey whose latest, THE LAST WORDS OF JACK RUBY, follows two tough Jews from the streets of Prohibition Chicago to Dallas’ Dealey Plaza and the limits of American myth. Joshua will be in conversation with author Jeremy T. Wilson. Followed by a book signing.

Doors and minibar open at 5:30PM

Getting here: We are located at 1620 Orrington Avenue, in downtown Evanston, just one block east of the Davis Street Metra and CTA public transit stops. There is metered street parking as well as numerous parking garages nearby.

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Joshua Corey is a poet, critic, translator, and novelist. His books include Hannah and the Master, a poetic fantasia on the relationship between Martin Heidegger and Hannah Arendt, and the novels Beautiful Soul: An American Elegy and How Long Is Now, both of which could plausibly be described as shaggy-dog stories about grief. He is Editor-in-Chief of The Fortnightly Review, a literary magazine, and sole owner and proprietor of “Dream of a Rarebit Fiend,” a Substack where he discusses writing, movies, and his obsession with Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin series of historical novels. He is Professor of English at Lake Forest College outside Chicago and lives in Evanston with his family.

Jeremy T. Wilson is the author of the novel The Quail Who Wore the Shirt and the short story collection Adult Teeth. He is a former winner of the Chicago Tribune's Nelson Algren Award for short fiction and the Hessman Trophy, presented by legendary principal Durward U. Hessman to the fifth grade student who could eat the most corn. His work has appeared in The Alaska Quarterly Review, The Florida Review, Jet Fuel Review, The Masters Review, Split Lip Magazine, Third Coast, The Best Small Fictions 2020, and other publications. He prefers pie over cake, bourbon over scotch, and R.E.M. over U2. He lives in Evanston, Illinois.