Friday, August 13th, 7pm

Long Island mystery author MICHAEL ATKINSON will speak about and sign his new mystery starring Ernest Hemingway, Hemingway Cutthroat.

(This event has been rescheduled from its original date of July 17.)

In Hemingway Deadlights, Michael Atkinson gave readers a witty, action-packed adventure starring literary giant Ernest Hemingway in the golden years of his life, roused from hiding by a suspicious death he could not help but investigate.

Now Hemingway is back for yet another mysterious adventure in Hemingway Cutthroat, set in 1930s Spain while Hemingway was developing the story of For Whom the Bell Tolls.

When one of Fascist Spain’s political officials is found dead on a hillside, his own government colleagues suspiciously take little interest in finding the culprit. Hemingway, in the country as a journalist, can’t let the murder go. Despite the other deaths everywhere around him—it is wartime, after all—he sets out to discover not just who killed the man but also the reason for the cover-up. Written with wit and charm, Hemingway Cutthroat is equal parts classic espionage thriller and literary origin story for one of Papa’s most famous novels.

MICHAEL ATKINSON is a former film critic for The Village Voice and has written for The Believer, Spin, Details, LA Weekly, The Boston Phoenix, The Stranger, Interview, and more. His work has been named as both Best American Poetry and Best American Movie Writing selections. He is also the author of five books. He lectures on film history and screenwriting at C.W. Post/Long Island University and New York University.

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