Pages Bookshop Presents: Meghan O'Gieblyn

We are thrilled to host Midwestern author Meghan O'Gieblyn at Pages to discuss her latest book, "Interior States: Essays." This event is free and open to the public. Meghan's books will be for sale before and after this event.  

About Interior States: Essays:

The critic and essayist Meghan O'Gieblyn was born into an evangelical family, attended the famed Moody Bible Institute in Chicago for a time before she had a crisis of belief, and still lives in the Midwest, aka "Flyover Country." She writes of her "existential dizziness, a sense that the rest of the world is moving while you remain still," and that rich sense of ambivalence and internal division inform the fifteen superbly thoughtful and ironic essays in this collection. The subjects of these essays range from the rebranding (as it were) of Hell in contemporary Christian culture ("Hell"), a theme park devoted to the concept of intelligent design ("Species of Origin"), the paradoxes of Christian Rock ("Sniffing Glue"), Henry Ford's reconstructed pioneer town of Greenfield Village and its mixed messages ("Midwest World"), and the strange convergences of Christian eschatology and the digital so-called Singularity ("Ghosts in the Cloud"). Meghan O'Gieblyn stands in relation to her native Midwest as Joan Didion stands in relation to California - which is to say a whole-hearted lover, albeit one riven with ambivalence at the same time.

MEGHAN O'GIEBLYN is a writer who was raised and still lives in the Midwest. Her essays have appeared in Harper's Magazinen+1, The PointThe New York TimesThe GuardianThe New YorkerBest American Essays 2017, and the Pushcart Prize anthologies. She received a B.A. in English from Loyola University, Chicago and an MFA in Fiction from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She lives in Madison, Wisconsin. 

Event date: 
Thursday, February 21, 2019 - 6:00pm to 7:30pm
Event address: 
19560 Grand River Ave.
Detroit, MI 48223
Interior States: Essays Cover Image
$16.00
ISBN: 9780525562702
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Anchor - October 9th, 2018