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Join us to hear Hannah Levene in conversation with Cat Morgan and reading from her new book A Pizza Hut, a Pizza Hut, Kentucky Fried Chicken, and a Pizza Hut.

About the Book:

An electric, smart, and boldly playful novel exploring queer suburbia and the radical implications of staying put.

Herb and Lara are busy slinging coffees in their hometown – of Watford! While Herb dreams of leaving to write big gay plays for a big gay world, Lara’s dedication to being in the here and now keeps her firmly rooted. Plus she’s fallen madly in love with Cynthia, a high femme roboteer here to finish her PhD, teaching her way through robot post-doc hell, stamping on the brains of robo-boys as she goes. Soon Watford will use Cynthia’s inventions to reinvent itself into the communised Watford Underburg, but not yet.

Meanwhile, Lazarus is back at her mum’s. Her attempt at city life didn’t exactly go to plan, and now she spends her days working on a Yiddish translation of Kurt Vonnegut’s Cat’s Cradle and playing video games. With no capacity to think about her future and trying t forget her past, what will happen? Local football coach Butch Lichenstein, that’s what.

This is an author event with a reading, author interview and then audience Q&A. You do not need to have read the book in advance!

Refreshments provided.

About the author:

Hannah Levene is the author of Greasepaint (Nightboat Books, 2024). She has a PhD in Writing exploring the composition of new butch literature. A Pizza Hut, a Pizza Hut, Kentucky Fried Chicken, and a Pizza Hut is her second novel.

Hannah will be in conversation with Cat Morgan.

Catrin Morgan is an artist and writer. She received a PhD from the Royal College of Art in 2014. Her most recent publications are Studies for Studies (2017), and Jerome’s Study (2018) both made in collaboration with the novelist Max Porter. She is currently working on an updated version of her PhD thesis for Bloomsbury.