Busboys and Poets Books Presents The Bartender's Cure

Busboys and Poets Books Presents The Bartender’s Cure

Date and Time

Aug 2, 2022 6:00 pm

Location

Hyattsville

5331 Baltimore Ave, Hyattsville, Maryland, 20781

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Join us for an evening of cocktails and conversation with authors Wesley Straton and Natalka Burian + a Cocktail Making Demonstration

About this event

Busboys and Poets Books invites you to a colorful discussion with authors Wesley Straton and Natalka Burian while they showcase their skills with a cocktail making demonstration! The first 40 premium RSVPs will have their first cocktail included.

About The Bartender's Cure -Wesley Straton's The Bartender's Cure is a fiercely relatable debut novel about an aspiring bartender at the perfect neighborhood bar, filled with cocktail recipes and bartending tips and tricks.

Wesley Straton is a writer and bartender based in Brooklyn. She writes fiction about found families, alienation, and how where we live shapes who we are. She studied fiction at Brooklyn College, where she received the Himan Brown Creative Writing Award and served as an editor for the Brooklyn Review. Her fiction has appeared in Glimmer Train and has been shortlisted for the Disquiet Literary Prize, and she has written about international bar culture for Roads & Kingdoms, GQ, and Difford’s Guide. The Bartender’s Cure is her debut.

About The Night Shift - A shimmering, propulsive novel set in New York City during the early aughts and across time, The Night Shift shows that by confronting the past can we reshape our future.

Natalka Burian is the cofounder of the Freya Project, a nonprofit reading series that supports community-based activism and the work of women and nonbinary writers. She is the author of Welcome to the Slipstream, a young adult book, and the cocktail cookbook A Woman’s Drink, and is the co-owner of two bars, Elsa and Ramona.

Tickets for this event are $5 for the first 40 reserved spots (Includes a cocktail) Free tickets are available for non-drinkers. Full dinner service will be available to all patrons.

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