Friday, October 9, 2026 at 6:30 PM to 9:00 PM
Stories Books & Cafe, Los Angeles
A disquieting, atmospheric debut horror novel about a young woman investigating her mother’s disappearance at an abandoned Nevada observatory, for fans of Jeff VanderMeer and Mariana Enriquez. Nicholas Russell is a writer from Las Vegas. His work has appeared in McSweeney’s, Conjunctions, The Baffler, No Tokens, Defector, and Hunger Mountain. Observer is his first novel. In conversation with Brian Evenson, Shirley Jackson Award–winning author of Song for the Unraveling of the World and Last Days