Mark Prins

Brandon Taylor

This event is TICKETED. You may purchase a copy of the book, or a $5 admission ticket

Join us for an in-person event with Mark Prins for the launch of his debut novel The Latinist. Joining Mark in conversation is award-winning author Brandon Taylor. This event will be hosted in the Strand Book Store's 3rd floor Rare Book Room at 828 Broadway on 12th Street.

Please purchase a ticket for the event here.

Can’t make the event? Purchase a signed copy of the book here.

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In-person events will be presented to a fully vaccinated audience. All patrons over the age of sixteen will be required to show proof* of having completed the COVID-19 vaccination series at least 14 days prior to the date of the event. New York State has now clarified that a child up to the age of 16 who is unvaccinated and accompanied by a vaccinated adult may, in fact, attend events that otherwise are open only to people who are vaccinated. In such an event, the child will not need to be socially distanced, but they will need to wear masks at all times while attending the event.

*Proof of vaccination will be defined as either an original vaccination card or an Excelsior Pass. We will be checking to ensure compliance with the 14 day waiting period post-vaccination.

For contact tracing purposes, buyers must submit the following information at checkout for each attendee in the attending pod: Full Name, Address, Date of Birth, Email Address, and Phone Number. Registration will be required online. No tickets for entry will be sold at the door.

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THE LATINIST is a wickedly sharp, propulsive literary thriller: Tessa Templeton has thrived at Oxford University under the tutelage and praise of esteemed classics professor Christopher Eccles. However, just before her thesis defense, Tessa learns that Chris has sabotaged her career, and realizes their relationship is not at all what she believed. Chris, driven by what he mistakes as love for Tessa, has ensured that no other institution will offer her a position in order to keep Tessa at Oxford with him. His tactics grow more invasive as he determines to prove he has her best interests at heart; meanwhile, Tessa scrambles to undo the damage, and makes a startling discovery about a second-century Latin poet that could launch her into academic stardom, finally freeing her from Chris’s influence. In this contemporary reimagining of the Daphne and Apollo myth, THE LATINIST is a page-turning exploration of power, ambition, and the intertwining of love and obsession.

Mark Prins is a recent graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and a recipient of fellowships from the Truman Capote Literary Trust, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, and the Sun Valley Writers’ Conference. He lives in Brooklyn, NY.

Brandon Taylor is the author of the novel Real Life, which was a New York Times Editors’ Choice and shortlisted for the 2020 Booker Prize, as well as The National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Prize and the 2021 Young Lions Fiction Award. His work has appeared in Guernica, American Short Fiction, Gulf Coast, Buzzfeed Reader, O: The Oprah Magazine, Gay Mag, The New Yorker online, The Literary Review, and elsewhere. He holds graduate degrees from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where he was an Iowa Arts Fellow.