Amy Shearn presents Animal Instinct: A Novel, ft. Ada Calhoun – New York, NY

P&T Knitwear is pleased to welcome back Amy Shearn to celebrate the publication of her newest book, Animal Instinct: an “incisive, hot, and heartbreaking” novel ( Courtney Maum, author of The Year of the Horses) that follows a Brooklyn mother of three and recent divorcée with a newly awakened sexual desire and lust for a new life that refuse to be contained.

Amy will be joined in conversation by New York Times bestselling author Ada Calhoun. Along with a discussion and audience Q&A, Amy will also sign copies of Animal Instinct.

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• This is a ticketed in-store event with limited amphitheater-style seating. Doors open at 6:30pm.
• Cost of a $5 general admission ticket can be applied towards your purchase of the featured event book or any product in our café the night of an event.
• Cost of a book bundle ticket reflects the total cost of the feature event book (MSRP plus tax). Each book bundle ticket guarantees ticket holders one (1) copy of the feature event book.
• The talk will be followed by a book signing. Books signed at P&T Knitwear events must be purchased from P&T Knitwear. If you would like a signed copy and cannot attend the event, we’re happy to take your pre-order. We ship most places!
• We encourage all guests to wear masks.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Amy Shearn is the award-winning author of the critically-acclaimed novels Dear Edna Sloane, Unseen City, The Mermaid of Brooklyn, and How Far Is the Ocean from Here. She has worked as an editor for Medium, JSTOR, and Condé Nast, among other organizations, and her work has appeared in the New York Times, “Modern Love” column, Slate, Real Simple, Martha Stewart Living, O, The Oprah Magazine, Poets & Writers Magazine, Literary Hub,The Millions, The Rumpus, and other publications. Amy Shearn has an MFA from the University of Minnesota, and lives in Brooklyn with her two children.

ABOUT THE MODERATOR
Ada Cal­houn is the author of Crush, a nov­el out from Viking Books in Feb­ru­ary 2025. It’s about a hap­pi­ly mar­ried woman who falls obses­sive­ly in love with a pro­fes­sor and tries to fig­ure out how to love both men with­out giv­ing up either one — and also about the hav­oc that an unex­pect­ed emo­tion­al truth can wreak on a person’s life. Her last book, Also a Poet: Frank O’Hara, My Father, and Me, was named one of the Best Books of 2022 by the New York Times, Wash­ing­ton Post, Oprah Dai­ly, and NPR. She’s also the author of the instant New York Times best­seller Why We Can’t Sleep: Wom­en’s New Midlife Cri­sis.