South End Library Author Series: "The Author Weekend" by Laura Zigman

Friends of the South End Library (FOSEL) has develpped the South End Library Author Series to reach beyond the South End and Boston for experienced and debut authors alike to engage our friends and neighbors in stimulating discussion and reading. This month, we have author Laura Zigman discussing her new book The Author Weekend with the South End's own Sara DiVello ! Enjoy an energizing evening connecting with admired authors whose work will range across multiple genres and geographies! After the talk and Q&A discussion, purchase the showcased book from Parkside (we will be on site!), get it signed by the author, and enjoy apps and drinks with other readers from the South End. It’s a great time to connect with friends and neighbors. About the book... The Devil Wears Prada meets The White Lotus in a story of colliding egos and shocking betrayal, as intoxicatingly ice cold as the pink prosecco that flows all weekend. Everything needs to be just right for bestselling mystery writer Faye Wader’s first-ever fan weekend. Her sales might be slipping—only a little!—but her readers still love her enough to pony up for three days and two nights on Great Misery Island. The retreat is precisely planned, from the small-batch artisanal doughnuts to the perimenopausal Mermaid Meditation, by Faye and her beleaguered assistant, Jade—an aspiring author who can’t seem to finish her own novel. Faye’s longtime agent and editor will be there, as well as Faye’s number one fan, Peggy Mercer, who has been first in line at every one of Faye’s events. When news comes that the weekend will be crashed by glamorous, charismatic rival novelist Abby Schuss, Faye thinks things can’t get worse … until one of the attendees is found dead in her room, setting off an unexpectedly murderous chain of events that makes prepub anxiety seem like a day at the beach. How far is Faye willing to go to get exactly what she wants from her Author Weekend? The Author Weekend is a thrilling and hilarious dive into the dark heart of envy, and a glorious exploration of a woman of a certain age desperate to survive the dog-eat-dog world of publishing and control her own narrative. AWARDS • 2026 An Oprah Daily Pick • 2026 BookBub Pick • 2026 BiblioLifestyle Pick • 2026 People Magazine Pick • 2026 Wall Street Journal Pick • 2026 BookBub • 2026 Barnes & Noble Press Pick About the Author... Laura Zigman is the author of Small World (a New York Times Group Text pick and Editor’s Choice), Separation Anxiety , Animal Husbandry (which was made into the movie Someone Like You, starring Hugh Jackman and Ashley Judd), Dating Big Bird , Her , and Piece of Work . She has collaborated on several works of nonfiction—including Eddie Izzard’s New York Times bestseller, Believe Me —and has been a contributor to The New York Times and other publications. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.