Samuel Snoek-Brown Reading

Join Tacoma-based author Samuel Snoek-Brown to celebrate the publication of his new short story collection, There Is No Other Way to Worship Them, at Orca Books in Olympia. Sam will read from his new collection, then hold a short Q&A with the crowd. Books will be available for purchase at the event. 

ABOUT THE BOOK: There Is No Other Way to Worship Them is an eerie and mesmerizing collection of short stories set in Mexico and Texas. Each of the collection’s nine stories are woven together with themes of violence, mysticism and failures in the pursuit of love. Characters and landscapes slip from one story to the next, teasing readers with a sense of magical realism mastered by Snoek-Brown.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Samuel Snoek-Brown is the author of the short story collection There Is No Other Way to Worship Them, the Civil War novel Hagridden and short-fiction chapbooks Where There Is Ruin and Box Cutters. He also serves as production editor for Jersey Devil Press. He lives with his librarian wife in Tacoma.