Scott McClanahan and Chelsea Hodson

Scott McClanahan and Chelsea Hodson

Tuesday, July 14: P&T was pleased to welcome Scott McClanahan to celebrate and discuss his first novel in eight years, Fights!;set in the mountains of West Virginia and the indie literary scene in New York, Fights! unites the two great love stories of McClanahan’s life: his wife, the writer Juliet Escoria, and Tyrant Books publisher, the late Giancarlo DiTrapano. Scott was in conversation with Chelsea Hodson, author of Tonight I'm Someone Else, the publisher of Rose Books, and the founder of the Morning Writing Club.

Julia Angwin, Ami Fields-Meyer, and Barton Gellman

Wednesday, July 8: P&T Knitwear was pleased to welcome Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist, Julia Angwin, & former White House Senior Advisor, Ami Fields-Meyer, to celebrate and discuss their book On Courage; How to Be a Dissident in an Age of Fear, a deeply reported manual about how anyone can defy an authoritarian. Julia and Ami were joined in conversation by Barton Gellman, a Senior Advisor at the Brennan Center for Justice and the author of Dark Mirror: Edward Snowden and the American Surveillance State and the bestselling Angler: The Cheney Vice Presidency.

Serena Chopra and Alicia Mountain

Thursday, July 2: P&T Knitwear was pleased to welcome Serena Chopra to celebrate and discuss her poetry collection A Catalog of Future Mercies; a lyrical exploration of mercy as resistance to cyclical violence told in ghost stories and family histories. Serena was joined in conversation by Alicia Mountain, author of Four in Hand and High Ground Coward.

Lu Chekowsky and Elissa Bassist

Tuesday, June 23: P&T Knitwear was pleased to welcome Lu Chekowsky to celebrate and discuss her new book Don't Buy What I'm Selling; one part memoir, one part manifesto, Don’t Buy What I’m Selling is a fascinating, smart, and hilarious look at a woman determined to go deep inside advertising so she could save the world—and herself. Lu was joined in conversation with Elissa Bassist, author of the memoir Hysterical.

Madhushree Ghosh, Sayu Bhojwani, and Hawa Hassan

Wednesday, June 17: P&T Knitwear was pleased to welcome Madhushree Ghosh to celebrate and discuss her new book Safar: Finding Home, History, and Culture through Punjabi Food in the American West. Madhushree was joined in conversation by Sayu Bhojwani, author of People Like Us, and Hawa Hassan, author of Bibi's Kitchen.