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Adults- Registration is required for this event.
- Registration will close on May 30, 2026 @ 2:00pm.
Program Description
Event Details
Join Sarah G. Pierce and Kris Frieswick in the Jim & Dede Bartlett Auditorium + Community room for a freewheeling conversation on American political satire and pop culture through the lens of Pierce’s debut novel, For Human Use.
“This is a book for a really, really impressively strange mind, and I mean that as the most complimentary possible thing I could say about it. I cannot stop reading it, and I cannot read too much of it at the same time.”
- Linda Holmes, NPR’s Pop Culture Happy Hour
Sarah will be signing copies of her novel after the event.
Sarah G. Pierce: Hailing from California, Sarah moved to New York to study photography at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts and later earned a master’s degree from NYU’s Institute of Fine Arts, where she specialized in minimalist painters. For Human Use is her first novel.
Kris Frieswick is an award-winning journalist, humorist, teacher, editor and author whose debut novel,The Ghost Manuscript, a historical thriller, was published in 2019. She was most recently a deputy section editor and columnist for the Wall Street Journal. Her newsletter, The FreshHell Newsletter, is a humorous weekly email written to offer distractions for smart people who’ve just about had it. It can be found at: krisfrieswick.substack.com
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