Pauline Holdstock and Richard Kelly Kemick: Launch Party!

Join Upstart & Crow for a night of readings and conversation with Pauline Holdstock, author of WHAT ENDURES, and Richard Kelly Kemick, author of DECADENCE.

The stories in WHAT ENDURES range through and respond to a clickbait world evolving at terrifying speed, revealing the absurd and ridiculous nature of everyday life. What does it mean to endure in a world starving for truth and connection, what makes life worth living, what can be discovered and preserved from the onrush of experience—vicarious and actual—that comes at us?

In DECADENCE, Richard Kelly Kemick’s “accidental memoir of a sort,” the author ranges widely through his myriad preoccupations and obsessions—volleyball, municipal landfills, dogs, high school plays, Christmas villages, love—out of which the shape of a unique sensibility is revealed. Reminiscent of the three Davids—Rakoff, Sedaris, and Wallace—these essays accrete into a portrait of a man trying to make sense of a world in which there are no goddamn rules; and yet one in which every action has sometimes profound consequences.

This event is free, but please RSVP on their website as capacity is limited. Books will be on hand for sale and signing!