TICKETED: Chuck Klosterman at Public Assembly

AS OF 4PM TODAY (10/5), TICKETS FOR THIS EVENT ARE NO LONGER AVAILABLE ONLINE. A LIMITED NUMBER WILL BE AVAILABLE AT THE DOOR ON A FIRST-COME FIRST-SERVE BASIS STARTING AT 7PM. PLEASE CALL 718 383 0096 WITH ANY QUESTIONS. SEE YOU SOON!

Chuck Klosterman returns to Brooklyn for his new novel, The Visible Man. He'll be in conversation with author/journalist John Sellers (The Old Man and the Swamp). This event is 21+, as Public Assembly has a full bar. (Allowing us in turn to arrange for a special cocktail for the night, the Invisible Hombre, in honor of the book!)

Please note: this event takes place at Public Assembly in Williamsburg, rather than at the bookstore, and will be standing-room only. Tickets may not be available at the door, so buy in advance! Each ticket includes admittance to the event, a copy of The Visible Man, and a place in the signing line. Klosterman is happy to sign his other books along with the new one!

Austin, Texas, therapist Victoria Vick is contacted by a cryptic, unlikable man who insists his situation is unique and unfathomable. As he slowly reveals himself, Vick becomes convinced that he suffers from a complex set of delusions: Y__, as she refers to him, claims to be a scientist who has stolen cloaking technology from an aborted government project in order to render himself nearly invisible. He says he uses this ability to observe random individuals within their daily lives, usually when they are alone and vulnerable. Unsure of his motives or honesty, Vick becomes obsessed with her patient and the disclosure of his increasingly bizarre and disturbing tales. Over time, it threatens her career, her marriage, and her own identity.

Interspersed with notes, correspondence, and transcriptions that catalog a relationship based on curiosity and fear, The Visible Man touches on all of Chuck Klosterman’s favorite themes—the consequence of culture, the influence of media, the complexity of voyeurism, and the existential contradiction of normalcy. Is this comedy, criticism, or horror? Not even Y__ seems to know for sure.