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SUMMARY:An Evening with Debut Author Judson Merrill in Conversation with
  Sarah Walker Caron
DESCRIPTION:The Briar Patch invites you to enjoy an evening of discussio
 n with debut author Judson Merrill about his new novel\, PARANOID STORYT
 ELLING. He will be in discussion with author and journalist Sarah Walker
  Caron about writing\, developing this unique novel and his path to auth
 orship.\n\n\n\nJoin us at 7pm on Tuesday\, July 7 at BookSpace\, our lit
 erary event space located at 48 Columbia Street in Bangor. See you there
 !\n\n\n\nABOUT JUDSON MERRILL:Judson Merrill grew up in Maine\, studied 
 literature and writing at Brown University\, and received his MFA from B
 rooklyn College. Inspired by the way the novel began—as a fraud and a 
 thief\, stealing and repurposing popular storytelling forms—Merrill ha
 s spent the last decade writing work that uses today’s popular forms i
 n new and daring ways. In June 2026\, Under the BQE press will publish h
 is book Paranoid Storytelling.\n\n\n\nABOUT PARANOID STORYTELLING:Our bo
 dy politic is not just figuratively ill--it's been poisoned. When writer
  Judson Merrill started researching the new field of cultural immunology
  because he believed it could diagnose the cause of America's dissolutio
 n\, he didn’t realize the most prominent researcher in the field would
  vanish\, and that the possible diagnosis would vanish with her. A novel
  that reads as narrative nonfiction\, PARANOID STORYTELLING chronicles t
 he explosive story of Merrill's travels across Europe as he pieces toget
 her a trail of research that uncovers a radical explanation for our coll
 ective sickness: Paranoia. Rogue information has infected the stories th
 at bind our culture. But the closer Merrill gets to definitive proof\, t
 he more enemies he makes and the less certain he becomes that the truth 
 will set us free. In fact\, it might just make us sicker.\n\n\n\nABOUT S
 ARAH WALKER CARON:Sarah Walker Caron is a Pushcart nominated essayist as
  well as a food writer\, journalist and author whose recent books includ
 e The Pizza Planet Cookbook\, The Disney Princess Tea Parties Cookbook a
 nd Classic Diners of Maine. Her work has appeared in Farmer-ish\, The Wa
 shington Post\, the Boston Globe\, SheKnows and more. She was named colu
 mnist of the year by the Maine Press Association in 2015. Most recently\
 , she had creative nonfiction essays published in the journal Farmer-ish
  and the charity anthology Rivers of Ink. She is a part-time faculty mem
 ber at the University of Maine and Husson University where she teaches j
 ournalism and blogging. She graduated from Barnard College\, where she s
 tudied political science\, and received her Masters in English with a Co
 ncentration in Creative Writing at the University of Maine. Sarah lives 
 in Maine.
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