Samuel Ashworth: THE DEATH AND LIFE OF AUGUST SWEENEY (with Cutter Wood)
You have never read a novel quite like THE DEATH AND LIFE OF AUGUST SWEENEY. We’re so excited to introduce it you by way of this event with its author, Samuel Ashworth, in conversation with Cutter Wood!
In this daring, uproarious novel, legendary chef August Sweeney has served his final meal, dying in the middle of service in the very restaurant he built to secure his legacy. When Dr. Maya Zhu, a guarded, intense autopsist, is summoned to investigate, she discovers she must operate under strict conditions Sweeney himself dictated before he died. As she digs deeper into his immense body, everything that can go wrong, does, because August Sweeney isn’t about to let a little thing like death stop him from raising hell. The Death and Life of August Sweeney finds two people drawn together across the barrier of death.
Samuel Ashworth is the author of the novel The Death and Life of August Sweeney and father of two based in Washington, DC. A food writer and former columnist at the Rumpus, his work appears in the Atlantic, the Washington Post, Eater, Punch, Longreads, and many others. He is a professor of creative writing at George Washington University, and an assistant fiction editor at Barrelhouse. He’s also a bestselling ghostwriter.
Cutter Wood is the author of the forthcoming Earthly Materials: Journeys Through Our Bodies’ Emissions, Excretions, and Disintegrations. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Harper’s, Discover, The Virginia Quarterly Review, The Paris Review Daily and other publications. He is the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, and he was the Jenny McKean Moore Writer-in-Residence at George Washington University. He lives in Baltimore with his partner and family.
