Tuesday, April 19 at 6:00 pm in the Marc Jacobs Reading Room

Join author Leslie Kirk Campbell for a reading and signing of her new short story collection The Man with Eight Pairs of Legs in the Library’s Marc Jacobs Reading Room.

The Man with Eight Pairs of Legs is about the ways our bodies are marked by memory, often literally, and the risky decisions we make when pushed to the extreme.  Winner of the 2020 Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction, this collection of short stories is a study in compassion and in passion, a must-read for our times. 

“History and memory crosscut The Man with Eight Pairs of Legs in a gorgeous weave.  These are marvelous, stirring stories, sometimes sexy, sometimes harrowing, somehow both timeless and timely.  Campbell writes with great depth, patience, wisdom, and beauty.” - Anthony Doerr, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for All the Light We Cannot See

Leslie Kirk Campbell’s short fiction has appeared in Ploughshares Solos and won awards at Arts & Letters, Southern Indiana Review, Briar Cliff Review, and The Thomas Wolfe Review.  The author of Journey into Motherhood (Riverhead), Campbell is the mother of two grown sons and teaches at Ripe Fruit Writing, a creative writing program she founded in San Francisco, CA.