New York-born, Athens-based author Jordan A. Rothacker’s newest novel, The Shrieking of Nothing, is a future noir mystery set in a post-climate catastrophe, post-capitalist Atlanta in the year 2220. It is a sequel to Rothaker’s 2020 novel, The Death of the Cyborg Oracle, both following Assistant Sacred Detective Edwina Casaubon and her Sherlockian mentor, Sacred Detective Rabbi Jakob “Thinkowitz” Rabbinowitz. In this doomed version of Atlanta, the two work together to solve a mystery involving a Filipino mountain goddess, a person who went missing at an Ego Death Festival and a serial killer with a taste for avatars, addressing themes like shared guilt and cooperative healing along the way. Author Lillah Lawson says Rothaker “deftly toes that fine line between levity and lament, exploring what David Bowie called ‘the great salvation of bullshit faith with a clear note of warning, a strong dose of empathy, and dare I say, hope.’” Accordingly, the book launch will also be a David Bowie-themed costume party featuring an album preview by Andrew Steck and guest readers William M. Brandon III, Jordan Stepp and Mark Katzman.
WHO: The Shrieking of Nothing Book Launch Party
WHEN: Tuesday, Oct. 29, 6 p.m.
WHERE: Buvez
HOW MUCH: FREE!
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