Meaghan Garvey: "Midwestern Death Trip"

Join us at Pegasus Books Downtown at 7pm on Monday, June 29th for a reading and author talk with music critic and Substack star Meaghan Garvey on her debut book, MIDWESTERN DEATH TRIP. Garvey will be joined in conversation by County Highway editor Valen Lambert. We'll have lots of books available for signing—see you there!

About the Author: Chicago writer Meaghan Garvey has made her bones as one of America's funniest and most astute music critics in her profiles and essays for The New York Times, Billboard, New York Magazine, County Highway, Pitchfork, and GQ. She is also the writer of the dark, unsparing, and wildly popular substack Scary Cool Sad Goodbye.

About the Book:

Propelled by her mother’s death into a half-life of drug-dealing boyfriends and shivery mornings, Meaghan Garvey finds salvation in dingy dive bars—and in being the stranger who is always moving on to somewhere else. When chance gifts her with a Cadillac with a blood-red paint-job and matching leather seats, Garvey sets out on an amphetamine-fueled road-trip through her native Midwest in the hopes of resolving the mysteries of her itinerant personal life through encounters with the places and characters that define her imagination.

Part coming-of-age memoir and part 1940s film noir jail-break, Midwestern Death Trip combines the thrill of the open road amid a haunted landscape of back-woods diners and small-town bar tops. A speed demon’s encounter with the depths of American loneliness from the Hunter Thompson of the 2020s.