Grady Hendrix w/ Katie Crouch

Grady Hendrix celebrates the release of his new book My Best Friend’s Exorcism with his best friend from high school and local SF author Katie Crouch (Girls in Trucks,Abroad). These two embarrassment experts are going to exorcise their high school humiliation demons and take the plunge into pure insanity. See! Grady and Katie talk about the bizarre alternate universe that was high school in the deep South in the 1980s. Hear! Katie and Grady read the most cringe-inducing passages from their teenage diaries. Weep! As Grady reads horrifying fan letters he wrote celebrities. Wonder! At how Katie manages to dress herself in the morning after listening to the poetry she submitted to the high school literary journal. Thank God! It’s not you up there revealing what a complete and total teenager you were.

Grady Hendrix is a novelist and screenwriter based in New York City. His previous novel,Horrorstör, was named one of the best books of 2014 by National Public Radio.

Katie Crouch is the New York Times bestselling author of Girls in Trucks and Abroad, among other novels. She has written for The Guardian, McSweeney’s, Tin House,Slate, Salon, and has a regular column on the Rumpus called “Missed.” A MacDowell Fellow, Crouch teaches at San Francisco State University and lives in Bolinas, California.