Strand Book Store
Rare Book Room, 3rd Floor
828 Broadway & 12th Street
New York, NY 10003
United States
The Strand Book Store will host Sarah Ruhl for a reading and discussion of her newest book, Letters from Max: A Book of Friendship, alongside Mary-Louise Parker. Tickets are $15 for admission and a gift card, or $26 for admission and a signed copy of the book. LEARN MORE
Sarah Ruhl
Sarah Ruhl’s plays include In the Next Room, or the vibrator play (Pulitzer Prize finalist, Tony Award nominee), and The Clean House (Pulitzer Prize finalist, winner of the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize), among many others. She is recipient of the MacArthur “genius” grant, and of, most recently, the 2016 Steinberg Prize. She is currently on the faculty of the Yale School of Drama and lives in Brooklyn with her family.
Studded with poems and songs, this correspondence is a deeply moving portrait of a friendship, and a shimmering exploration of love, art, mortality, and joy.