Reinvented Women: Dating Silky Maxwell

Watershed Lit: Center for Literary Engagement and Publishing Practice

Thursday, February 20, 2025 10:30 AM EST
Fenwick Library, Fenwick Reading Room, 2nd Floor

TJ Butler’s debut short story collection, Dating Silky Maxwell, contends with down-to-earth women grappling with difficult circumstances. The stories focus on each characters’ agency as they take their power back. Author Amber Sparks says, “There’s so much to love about these stories, but it’s the characters who’ve been haunting me, vivid and flawed and human and as beautifully written as any I’ve met in life.”