Author Talk & Book Signing: Megan Milks & Sara Jaffe

Megan Milks and Sara Jaffe are teaming up to present their brand new books, Mega Milk: Essays and Hurricane Envy. Join us at Hive Mind Books in Bushwick for a queer literary double header! One night only: the incomparable, the stupendous, the not-to-be-missed Megan Milks and Sara Jaffe are teaming up to present their brand new books, Mega Milk: Essays and Hurricane Envy. After the reading and conversation, both authors will sign copies of their books. Our coffee and tea counter will be open for the duration of the event. ******************** Books will be available to purchase at Hive Mind Books. We ask that books signed at our events be purchased at our bookstore. Book sales ensure that our independent queer bookstore can continue to keep the lights on and bring great events like this to our neighborhood. Thank you for your support! If you would like a signed copy of either book but cannot attend the event, you can order signed books from us. Please place your orders through our website. We ship most places! ******************** ABOUT MEGA MILK A sparkling, funny, and often wrenching portrait-in-essays on the dairy industry, queer intimacy, family, fluidity, whiteness, and cows. For decades, Megan Milks has wondered what it means to share a last name with the classic white American beverage. Now, Milks takes on their namesake subject in all its dimensions, venturing into the worlds of small dairies, bovine genetics, and manure while also turning their eye on their family and themself. The resulting essays connect the dots between human lactation, Big Dairy, being queer and lonely, climate change, transmasculinity, the bull semen industry, the milky roots of white supremacy, and the best practices for giving and receiving a hug. With Mega Milk, Megan Milks confirms their place as one of our most exciting queer thinkers and writers. ABOUT MEGAN MILKS Megan Milks is the author of Margaret and the Mystery of the Missing Body, finalist for a Lambda Literary Award in Transgender Fiction; Slug and Other Stories; and Tori Amos Bootleg Webring. They coedited We Are the Baby-Sitters Club with Marisa Crawford and have published criticism in 4Columns, the New York Times, and Bookforum. They live in Brooklyn. ABOUT HURRICANE ENVY The stories in this collection explore the textures and tensions of contemporary life, pressing on our ambivalence, how we belong to but differ from the world around us. In Hurricane Envy, characters struggle to be perceived by others as they perceive themselves—as an authentic artist, a “good white person,” a legitimate parent. Jaffe brings her keen eye and her formal ingenuity to subjects that range from queer parenting, to the rise of the algorithm in the music industry, to gentrification and institutional claims on art, to post-punk culture, anti-Zionist Jewish identity, the rhetoric and realities of American safety. With humor and meticulous care, Jaffe celebrates and unsettles our desires, our self-knowledge—sentence by sentence, these stories find new possibilities within what we already know. ABOUT SARA JAFFE Sara Jaffe is a writer living in Portland, OR. Their first book, Dryland, a novel, was published by Tin House Books and Cipher Press (UK ). Her short fiction, essays, and criticism have appeared in publications including Joyland, Fence, BOMB, NOON, and Maggot Brain. She co-edited The Art of Touring (Yeti, 2009), an anthology of writing and visual art by musicians drawing on her experience as guitarist for post-punk band Erase Errata. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Hive Mind Books is a queer and trans bookstore and coffee shop in Bushwick, Brooklyn. The store and coffee counter will be open all night for attendees who want to make purchases. Seating is first come, first served. We have standing room available after seating fills up. Subways: (L) Dekalb (M/L) Myrtle-Wyckoff (M) Knickerbocker