Queer writers Michelle Tea and Brooke Palmieri both believe in magic.

The protagonist of Tea’s new coming-of-age novel, Little F (Feminist Press, 232 pages, $17.95), finds it figuratively in the queer joy they experience on a cross-country road trip, while Palmieri discusses it literally in his debut essay collection, Bargain Witch: Essays in Self-Initiation (MIT Press, 296 pages, $17.95). The authors will discuss parallels between their works, among other things, during a joint appearance at Powell’s Books on Monday, Oct. 27.

Teen runaway Spencer, Little F ’s main character, takes off for the coastal queer haven of Provincetown, Mass., after an attack hospitalizes him. Tea’s signature style of crafting gritty, unexpected, silly and romantic queer realities—as seen in her award-win

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