If you co-owned a skating rink, why wouldn’t you host your book party there? I’ll be DJing ‘90s vinyl in honor of Stefan’s memoir Homeschooled (Hanover Square Press). Come one, come all.

Michael Cunningham, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Hours: “Stefan Merrill Block’s Homeschooled is a love story and a domestic horror story, so insightfully written that you can’t always separate its loving aspects from its horrifying ones. Its depiction of familial terrors, all inflicted in the name of devotion, driven by the all-too-human need for more devotion, and yet more, raised the hairs on the back of my neck. I didn’t fully realize I’d read it in a single sitting until it became clear that dusk had fallen, and it was time to turn the lights on.”—

About Stefan: Stefan grew up in Plano, Texas. He is the author of Homeschooled, a memoir, as well as three novels: The Story of Forgetting, The Storm at the Door, and Oliver Loving. Stefan’s fiction has been translated into ten languages, and his stories and essays have appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker Page-Turner, The Guardian, NPR’s Radiolab, GRANTA, and many other publications.