Tue, Jun 30
|The Book Shop of Needham
An Evening with Laura Zigman, author of The Author Weekend
An evening of discussion and Q&A with Laura Zigman, author of The Author Weekend. Laura Zigman is the author of Small World, Separation Anxiety, Animal Husbandry (which was made into the movie "Someone Like You, " starring Hugh Jackman and Ashley Judd), Dating Big Bird, Her, and Piece of Work.
Time & Location
Jun 30, 2026, 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM
The Book Shop of Needham, 283 Chestnut St, Needham, MA 02492, USA
Guests
About the event
The Devil Wears Prada meets The White Lotus in a story of colliding egos and shocking betrayal, as intoxicatingly ice cold as the pink prosecco that flows all weekend.
Everything needs to be just right for bestselling mystery writer Faye Wader’s first-ever fan weekend. Her sales might be slipping—only a little!—but her readers still love her enough to pony up for three days and two nights on Great Misery Island. The retreat is precisely planned, from the small-batch artisanal doughnuts to the perimenopausal Mermaid Meditation, by Faye and her beleaguered assistant, Jade—an aspiring author who can’t seem to finish her own novel.
Faye’s longtime agent and editor will be there, as well as Faye’s number one fan, Peggy Mercer, who has been first in line at every one of Faye’s events. When news comes that the weekend will be crashed by glamorous, charismatic rival novelist Abby Schuss, Faye thinks things…