Author Event: A/S/L with Jeanne Thornton

When:
Tuesday, Jun 17, 2025 7:00p -
9:00p

Where:
Trident Booksellers & Café
338 Newbury Street
Boston, MA 02115

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Admission:
FREE

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Drinks, Food, LGBTQ+, Meetup

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oin us for a riveting conversation between Jeanne Thornton and Calvin Gimpelevich on Jeanne's new book, A/S/L!


Seating will be first come, first serve and beginning at 6:30pm. Books will be available for purchase at the event.


ABOUT THE BOOK


A transformational, transformative story about video games, three queer friends, and the code(s) they learn to survive, from the winner of the Lambda Literary Award for Trans Fiction


1998: Lilith, Sash, and Abraxa are teenagers, scattered across the country but joined by the Internet as they create Saga of the Sorceress, a video game that will change everything, if only for the three of them.


Eighteen years later, Saga of the Sorceress still exists only on the scattered drives of its creators. Lilith works as a loan underwriter at a rinky-dink bank in Manhattan, a trans woman in a very cis world. Sash is in Brooklyn, working as a part-time webcam dominatrix. Neither knows that the other is in New York, or that Abraxa is just across the Hudson River, sleeping on the floor of a friend’s Jersey City home after a disaster at sea. They have never met in person and have been out of touch for years, but none have forgotten the sorceress or her unfinished quest.


Weaving together the technologies of two decades, and a healthy dose of magic, A/S/L is a novel that queers our notions of nostalgia, friendship, and even the possibilities of fiction itself, confirming Jeanne Thornton as one of our best and most ambitious novelists.


BIOS

Jeanne Thornton is the author of Summer Fun, winner of the Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Fiction and finalist for the Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBTQ Fiction, as well as The Black Emerald and The Dream of Doctor Bantam. Her fiction has appeared in n+1, WIRED, Evergreen Review, and other places. She is an editor at Feminist Press, as well as copublisher of Instar Books and coeditor of the Ignatz Award–winning We’re Still Here: An All-Trans Comics Anthology. She lives in Brooklyn, and more information is available at jeannethornton.com.

Calvin Gimpelevich is an NEA Fellow, the recipient of a Lambda Literary Award, and the author of Invasions (Instar Books, 2018). His work has been recognized by Artist Trust, Jack Straw Cultural Center, 4Culture, CODEX/Writer’s Block, Studios at MASS MoCA, and the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts; it has appeared or is forthcoming in Ploughshares, Kenyon Review, A Public Space, and The Best American Essays 2022. He runs the T4T Reading Series in Boston, MA.

Food and Beverage will be available for purchase.

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