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Soho Press Presents: ‘Night Soil’ by Dale Peck Soho Press Presents: ‘Night Soil’ by Dale Peck

Mon August 20th, 2018

7:30PM

The Gallery

Minimum Age: 21+

Doors Open: 6:30PM

Show Time: 7:30PM

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Join Soho Press for the launch of critically acclaimed and Lambda Award-winning author Dale Peck’s new novel, Night Soil.

A limited number of drink tickets will be available at the start of the event followed by a short reading and signing by the author.

About Night Soil

Family secrets, sexual explorations, art world wealth, and legacies of racism and environmental destruction collide in the new novel from Lambda Award-winning author Dale Peck.

The art world falls in love with Dixie Stammers when it is discovered that not only are her pots mechanically perfect spheres, they are also identical, despite the fact that they are made entirely by hand, without benefit of a wheel, measuring device, or any other tool.

Her teenage son, Judas, is pathologically shy, and retreats into a world of anonymous sexual encounters at a roadside rest area. What he really longs for though is a relationship with one of the boys at the private school he attends. The Academy was founded by Judas’s ancestral grandfather, a nineteenth-century coal magnate. Driven by his mother’s secretive nature, Judas begins digging into his family’s history, and the Academy’s, until he unearths a series of secrets that cause him to question everything he thought he knew about his world.

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Dale Peck

About the Author

Dale Peck is the author of thirteen books in a variety of genres, including Visions and RevisionsMartin and JohnHatchet Jobs, and Sprout. His fiction and criticism have appeared in dozens of publications, and have earned him two O. Henry Awards, a Pushcart Prize, a Lambda Literary Award, and a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship. He lives in New York City, where he has taught in the New School’s Graduate Writing Program since 1999.

Photo Credit: Lou Peralta

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