An Evening with Bonnie Garmus at All Souls Unitarian Church – Tulsa, OK

Magic City Books is excited to welcome back the author of the global bestseller Lessons in Chemistry for a special event to celebrate the release of her new book on Wednesday, November 18 at 7:00 pm.

Bonnie will be in conversation with poet and translator, Boris Dralyuk. Following the author talk, Bonnie will personalize books and meet guests.

This ticketed event will take place at All Souls Unitarian Church in Tulsa, 2952 S. Peoria Avenue. All tickets include one (1) copy of Peck & Peck ($30.00 value) and one (1) general admission seat at the event.

Want multiple tickets but not multiple books? You'll have the option at the event to donate any extra copies to a local organization.

All books will be available for pickup at the event.

There is a limit of four tickets per transaction. Please provide the full name and email address of each ticket holder so that all event notifications and information can be sent to all attendees.

If you have a ticket and are unable to attend the event, you will be able to pick up your book at Magic City Books during normal business hours. The last day for ticket holders to pick up Peck & Peck by Bonnie Garmus is December 16, 2026. We will make an effort to have signed books available for pick up but can not guarantee a signed copy.

About Peck & Peck

It’s 1982, New York City. Crime is on the rise, muggings are in the streets, and Batter Gray, recent college graduate with a skill that no one wants—an “ear” for poetry—is worried about his future. While all of his friends have real jobs, he’s folding T-shirts at the Gap. As for love? No. Not unless you count Sallie Mae, the student loan tyrant. He hears from Sallie all the time.

But when Batter gets a dream job at Peck & Peck, the most prestigious poetry quarterly in the world, his life moves into the literary fast lane. Soon Batter is knee-deep in the secret war between the two Editors in Chief, the famous Peck brothers—twins and enemies—as well as being privy to the private affairs of their thirty-nine editors, whose professed mission is the same: Find originality. Reward creativity. Burn the rest.

And by burn, they mean incinerate. Because at Peck & Peck, “good” isn’t good enough, “interesting” doesn’t cut it, plagiarists aren’t tolerated, and parolees run the mailroom. Still want to submit your poem? Go with God.

Welcome to another dazzling and unforgettable novel from Bonnie Garmus. If you loved Lessons in Chemistry, you will love Peck & Peck.

About the Author

Bonnie Garmus is a coffee-dependent American novelist. Her debut novel, Lessons in Chemistry, was a Good Morning America Book Club Pick, a Goodreads Choice Best Book of the Year, spent nearly two years on the New York Times bestseller list and was named by Times readers as one of the top 100 books of the 21st century. Translated into over forty languages, Lessons in Chemistry was honored with sixteen international literary awards and made into an Apple TV limited series. Peck & Peck is her second novel.

About the Moderator

Boris Dralyuk is a poet, translator, and critic. He holds a PhD in Slavic Languages and Literatures from UCLA and currently teaches in the English Department at the University of Tulsa. Formerly the editor-in-chief of the Los Angeles Review of Books, he is currently the editor-in-chief of Nimrod International Journal.