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TOM COLE
"CHIMES: A MONOLOGUE"
WITH HARRIET CLARK
READING AND CONVERSATION
Wed, Nov 18, 7pm

right: Tom Cole, *Chimes: A Monologue*, published by The Song Cave, 2026, cover drawing by Michael Leonard, and left: Harriet Clark,* The Hill*, published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2026, cover design by Na Kim

right: Tom Cole, Chimes: A Monologue, published by The Song Cave, 2026, cover drawing by Michael Leonard, and left: Harriet Clark, The Hill, published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2026, cover design by Na Kim

Tom Cole, Chimes: A Monologue with Harriet Clark
Reading and Conversation
Wednesday, November 18, 7pm

Join us to celebrate Tom Cole’s debut novel, Chimes: A Monologue, published by The Song Cave, with a reading and conversation with Harriet Clark, winner of The Paris Review’s 2023 George Plimpton Prize, and author of The Hill (2026).

"Chimes is an intimate shape shifter — it’s a poem, a novella, a play, a prayer — carnal, spiritual, sweet & funny. I love this book." —Eileen Myles

Tom Cole is a writer, performer, and artist living between the Lower East Side and Kingston, NY. His work has been presented at PARTICIPANT INC, Thread Waxing Space, Art on Air, Dixon Place, Clock­tower Gallery, ICA Boston, Performa, Howl Arts, Poetry Project, and the Boston Center for the Arts. He is a three-time MacDowell Playwriting fellow, and an Edward Albee Foundation Playwriting fellow. Cole’s writing has been anthologized in Pathetic Litera­ture, edited by Eileen Myles; Sluts, edited by Michelle Tea; Flesh and the Word 4, edited by Michael Lowenthal; This New Breed, edited by Rudy Kikel, and Flashpoint, edited by Michael Bronski.

Harriet Clark's debut novel, The Hill, was released in May and featured in The New Yorker’s “Best Books of 2026 So Far.”

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right: Tom Cole, *Chimes: A Monologue*, published by The Song Cave, 2026, cover drawing by Michael Leonard, and left: Harriet Clark,* The Hill*, published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2026, cover design by Na Kim
TOM COLE
"CHIMES: A MONOLOGUE"
WITH HARRIET CLARK
READING AND CONVERSATION
Wed, Nov 18, 7pm
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