THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED DUE TO THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC, AND CURRENT RESTRICTIONS ON THEATERS/GATHERING SIZES.

CANCELED – Jean Cocteau Cinema Presents Lavie Tidhar on Friday, June 19!

SANTA FE, NM — World Fantasy Award-winner Lavie Tidhar is at the Jean Cocteau Cinema on June 19 to talk about and sign her newest fantasy novel, By Force Alone.

About The Book: A retelling of Arthurian myth for the age of Brexit and Trump. Everyone thinks they know the story of King Arthur and his knights of the Round Table. The fact is they don’t know sh*t.  Arthur? An over-promoted gangster. Merlin? An eldritch parasite. Excalibur? A shady deal with a watery arms dealer. Britain? A clogged sewer that Rome abandoned just as soon as it could. A savage and cutting epic fantasy, equally poetic and profane, By Force Alone is at once a timely political satire, a magical adventure, and a subversive masterwork.

About The Author: Lavie Tidhar’s most recent novels are By Force Alone and The Escapement, both out in 2020. He is the author of the World Fantasy Award winning Osama, the Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize-winning A Man Lies Dreaming, the Campbell and Neukom awards-winning Central Station, and many others, including children’s book The Candy Mafia and comics mini-series Adler (out now). As editor he published the ground-breaking Apex Book of World SF series of international speculative fiction, and he is currently a book columnist for The Washington Post. Lavie grew up in Israel and South Africa, lived in Vanuatu and Laos, and currently resides in London.

Please join Lavie Tidhar 4:00-6:00 pm Friday, June 19, at the Jean Cocteau Cinema, 418 Montezuma in Santa Fe.