Join us for an evening with J. Vanessa Lyon who will read from her new novel Lush Lives – a speculative and steamy literary romance set in Manhattan's high-stakes art and auction worlds. This second inaugural title from Roxane Gay Books/Grove Atlantic is a "sumptuous tale" of queer love, personal ambition, and the forgotten histories that define us.
Art Historian J. Vanessa Lyon is the author of The Groves (an Audible Original) and Meet Me in Madrid, which appeared under the pseudonym Verity Lowell. A James Baldwin fellow at MacDowell and Bread Loaf contributor in nonfiction, she teaches visual and queer studies and critical theory at Bennington College.