Event – Detail

David Amadio, author of the Athenæum Literary Award-winning novel Rug Man (2023), returns to talk about Delco's cultural identity and how HBO's Mare of Easttown changed the region's perception of itself, ushering in a strange vanity, antithetical to its long-standing inferiority complex. He asks how he, as a Delco-born novelist, can write without pandering to the hype and, in a larger sense, what role fiction plays in reconciling the contradictory nature of people and places.

David will sign copies of Rug Man at the reception following the program. Book sales arranged through Head House Books.

David Amadio teaches Creative Writing and Composition at Lincoln University, America's first degree-granting HBCU. His writing has appeared in Cleaver, Packingtown Review, Adaptation, Talking River, Nerve Cowboy, and the San Francisco Examiner. He lives in suburban Philadelphia with his wife and two children. Rug Man is his first novel.